* [9fans] Unix's founding fathers
@ 2004-07-27 0:03 Skip Tavakkolian
2004-07-27 0:16 ` Boris Maryshev
2004-07-27 0:24 ` andrey mirtchovski
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From: Skip Tavakkolian @ 2004-07-27 0:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
I thought it might be nice to have something worth reading
amongst all the spam today.
http://economist.com/science/tq/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2724348
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* Re: [9fans] Unix's founding fathers
2004-07-27 0:03 [9fans] Unix's founding fathers Skip Tavakkolian
@ 2004-07-27 0:16 ` Boris Maryshev
2004-07-27 0:22 ` Rob Pike
2004-07-27 0:24 ` andrey mirtchovski
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From: Boris Maryshev @ 2004-07-27 0:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
On Tuesday 27 July 2004 03:03, Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
> I thought it might be nice to have something worth reading
> amongst all the spam today.
>
> http://economist.com/science/tq/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2724348
Nice indeed.
As Boyd pointed out, “Space Travel” should be “Space War”.
And hey, how come other lists are dealing with spam much better?
Boris
--
There are two kinds of fool. One says, "This is old, and therefore good."
And one says "This is new, and therefore better."
-- John Brunner, "The Shockwave Rider"
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* Re: [9fans] Unix's founding fathers
2004-07-27 0:16 ` Boris Maryshev
@ 2004-07-27 0:22 ` Rob Pike
2004-07-27 0:38 ` Boris Maryshev
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From: Rob Pike @ 2004-07-27 0:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
no, the article is correct. it was 'space travel'.
-rob
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* Re: [9fans] Unix's founding fathers
2004-07-27 0:03 [9fans] Unix's founding fathers Skip Tavakkolian
2004-07-27 0:16 ` Boris Maryshev
@ 2004-07-27 0:24 ` andrey mirtchovski
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From: andrey mirtchovski @ 2004-07-27 0:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
> I thought it might be nice to have something worth reading
> amongst all the spam today.
>
> http://economist.com/science/tq/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2724348
did you find the code snippets in the dmr collage a tad strange:
http://economist.com/images/20040612/UNIX.jpg
?
i'll tell you where they are from (google's working now):
http://www.aljex.com/bkw/filepro/
(the topmost entry, check the screenshots) but i can't tell you why
they were used instead of some trivial C code... filePro for SCO
UNIX? wtf indeed!
andrey
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* Re: [9fans] Unix's founding fathers
2004-07-27 0:22 ` Rob Pike
@ 2004-07-27 0:38 ` Boris Maryshev
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From: Boris Maryshev @ 2004-07-27 0:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
On Tuesday 27 July 2004 03:22, Rob Pike wrote:
> no, the article is correct. it was 'space travel'.
I see.
"Later we fixed Space Travel so it would run under (PDP-7) Unix instead of
standalone, and did also a very faithful copy of the Spacewar game originally
done (I think) at MIT on the PDP-1, but that was a different game."
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/spacetravel.html
But then there are quite a few articles on the Internet, which say that Unix
is here thanks to Ken wanting to play Space War on Programmed Data
Processor-7.
>
> -rob
Boris
--
The sendmail configuration file is one of those files that looks like someone
beat their head on the keyboard. After working with it... I can see why!
-- Harry Skelton
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