From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: arnold@skeeve.com Message-Id: <201405060838.s468c72Q018984@freefriends.org> Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 02:38:07 -0600 To: 9fans@9fans.net References: In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.4 7/29/08 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] [GSOC] fast kernel compile Topicbox-Message-UUID: deb54dec-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 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