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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 "midr
by tannhaeuser 7y ago
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.
- sedachv 7y ago> 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.