From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 4282 invoked from network); 4 Feb 2023 22:38:47 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 4 Feb 2023 22:38:47 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73C4C40EB4; Sun, 5 Feb 2023 08:38:43 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mailout2.ceti.pl (mailout2.ceti.pl [62.121.128.42]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 088BC40EAB; Sun, 5 Feb 2023 08:38:30 +1000 (AEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailout2.ceti.pl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84C462E0D8; Sat, 4 Feb 2023 23:38:27 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mailout.ceti.pl Received: from mailout2.ceti.pl ([62.121.128.42]) by localhost (mailout.ceti.pl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id KAmLh5aUOA1h; Sat, 4 Feb 2023 23:38:27 +0100 (CET) Received: from tau1.ceti.pl (tau.ceti.pl [62.121.128.11]) by mailout2.ceti.pl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AADC2E0D7; Sat, 4 Feb 2023 23:38:26 +0100 (CET) Received: by tau1.ceti.pl (Postfix, from userid 3727) id B82459463; Sat, 4 Feb 2023 23:38:26 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2023 23:38:26 +0100 From: Tomasz Rola To: TUHS Message-ID: References: <20230202190232.C79D118C073@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> <7wv8kj6yrx.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7wv8kj6yrx.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> Message-ID-Hash: 4OPPPAAV3IGJC2T2FIBT5252D3IP7XYX X-Message-ID-Hash: 4OPPPAAV3IGJC2T2FIBT5252D3IP7XYX X-MailFrom: rtomek@tau1.ceti.pl X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: coff@tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [COFF] Re: [TUHS] Re: Proper use of TUHS (was Re: Typesetter C compiler) List-Id: Computer Old Farts Forum Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On Fri, Feb 03, 2023 at 06:36:34AM +0000, Lars Brinkhoff wrote: > Dan Cross wrote: > > So, the question becomes: what _is_ that forum, if such a thing > > exists at all? > > Some options: > > - Cctalk email list. (cc-ed to coff, of coffse...) I use to hang out on IBM-MAIN mailing list, too. While they are, mostly, dealing with modern mainframes and current problems, they also occasionally mention old story or two. Actually, since mainframe is such a living fossil thing, the whole talk sometimes feels as if it was about something upgraded continuously from the 1960-ties. Most of it is uncomprehensible to me (never had proper mainframe training, or unproper one, and they deal with stuff in unique way, have their own acronyms for things, there are some intro books but there is not enough time*energy), but also a bit educating - a bit today, a bit next week etc. > - ClassicCMP Discord. > - Retrocomputingforum.com. > - Various Facebook groups. Web stuff, requiring Javascript to work, ugh, ugh-oh. Mostly, it boils down to the fact that one cannot easily curl the text from those other places (AFAICT). So it is hard to awk this text into mbox format and read it comfortably. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_rola@bigfoot.com **