Re:The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition
by tannhaeuser on Thursday September 19, 2019 @07:23PM
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They did use SCCS, RCS, and CVS, and also commercial SCMs such as PVCS. There were also file systems with integrated revision support on VAX/VMS and other "midrange" systems such as Norsk Data/SINTRAN. Of course, most people were applying adhoc "Cognac" SCM: rename your old revisions by appending ".old", ".vo" (very old), ".xo" (extra old) and so on until it becomes untenable, store individual customer builds, etc.
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Re:The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition
by sedachv on Friday September 20, 2019 @01:53AM
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> There were also file systems with integrated revision support on VAX/VMS and other "midrange" systems such as Norsk Data/SINTRAN.
Versioned file systems were developed for source code management and go back to ITS and TENEX in the late 1960s. So version control as we know it, as a widespread (at least in the DEC world) practice dates back to the 1970s.