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From: arnold@skeeve.com
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] [GSOC] fast kernel compile
Date: Tue,  6 May 2014 02:38:07 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201405060838.s468c72Q018984@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOw7k5i8XGhVQNinXFmRGwXHcSWVu8w1tM5uD+c7iLQLVL=zjg@mail.gmail.com>

> also, quite a bit that is unaccountably still in other kernels ("because
> Unix did it exactly that way in the 1970s on a PDP-11")

I think that "unaccountably" is a bit harsh. There is A  L O T of old
Unix software that still just compiles and works out of the box on
Linux, Solaris, *BSD.  There is a lot of value to that, when what you
care about is getting your work done (KTBR - Keep The Business Running).

I well understand that this community is less concerned about that,
but this community should also be open minded enough to understand
those kinds of concerns.

Arnold



  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-06  8:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-06  2:13 yan cui
2014-05-06  2:19 ` Charles Forsyth
2014-05-06  2:35   ` yan cui
2014-05-06  2:48     ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-06  8:02   ` Charles Forsyth
2014-05-06  8:38     ` arnold [this message]
2014-05-06  8:49       ` Charles Forsyth
2014-05-06  8:54         ` arnold
2014-05-06 13:34       ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-06  9:39     ` tlaronde
2014-05-06  9:52       ` tlaronde
2014-05-06 10:02         ` Charles Forsyth
2014-05-06 13:35           ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-06 15:24             ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2014-05-06 15:48               ` Oleksandr Iakovliev
2014-05-06 15:53                 ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-06 17:39                   ` cinap_lenrek
2014-05-06 15:51             ` Anthony Sorace

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