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From: gtaylor at tnetconsulting.net (Grant Taylor)
Subject: [COFF] [TUHS] man-page style
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 13:46:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <590e188f-092b-afd6-ff0a-4b6db8dc0f8d@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181116192941.DFB6218C073@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>

On 11/16/2018 12:29 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> _That_ is what made me such a huge fan of Unix, even though as an 
> operating system person, I was, and remain, a big fan of Multics (maybe 
> the only person in the world who really likes both :-), which I still 
> think was a better long-term path for OSes (long discussion of why elided 
> to keep this short).

Can I ask for the longer discussion?  It sounds like an enlightening 
sidebar that would be good to have over a cup of COFFee.  Maybe the 
barista on the COFF mailing list will brew you a cup to discuss this 
there.  ~wink~wink~nudge~nudge~



-- 
Grant. . . .
unix || die

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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2018-11-16 20:46 ` gtaylor [this message]
2018-11-17 20:09 jnc
2018-11-18  5:33 ` gtaylor
2018-11-18  6:28 ` bakul
2018-11-18 21:24 ` tytso
2018-11-19 17:53 jnc
2018-11-19 19:48 ` bakul

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