[cvsnt] 20 years of CVS

[Tony Hoyle]

Michael Wojcik wrote:
> I love that CVS (though not the RCS engine) is actually included in the
> announcement itself, as a shar archive.  Now there's an installer
> technology: no black boxes, trivial to inspect and fix if something goes
> wrong, and compact enough to send over a slow dial-up link.
> 
Shar was great... but then there weren't the complex interdependencies to 
worry about in those days.  Plus everyone was running a form of Unix so cross 
platform was easy :)

Tony