From: ron@ronnatalie.com (Ron Natalie)
Subject: [TUHS] Source code abundance?
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 14:44:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <007901d2977b$47009dc0$d501d940$@ronnatalie.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170307152851.GA16946@mcvoy.com>
> Personally, so long as it wasn't garbage code, I've always been sort of
stoked to stumble across my code in strange places. It's fun to think that
people found it useful.
It wasn't one of my UNIX things, but I had written our own standalone
PDP-11 router system (we originally used MIT's C-Gateway but Noel got exiled
for a while and it kind of languished so I wrote my own). About a year or
two after I wrote it I got a call from NASA:
ME: Hello.
NASA: We brought a VAX up on our network and now the gateway is printing
errors.
ME: OK, what sort of error.
NASA: Well... we're not sure exactly.
ME: (thinking about my error messages) Did it just print out some register
in octal or something?
NASA: It was from the interlan driver.
ME: (now wondering why they're being real cagey about things) What does it
say exactly?
NASA: It was something about trailers.
ME: (thinking)...Oh, is it "TRAILERS MAKE ME BARF?"
NASA: Yes, that was it.
This was back before BSD used the ARP protocol numbers to negotiate if the
other machine wanted to use trailers. It just always did them or not based
on an ifconfig option. While trailers were a great idea for the paging
structure of the VAX they were a bad idea for my code (which wanted to find
the IP header at a fixed place not the beginning of the payload data).
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Thread overview: 85+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-01 18:01 Arthur Krewat
2017-03-01 18:07 ` Cory Smelosky
2017-03-01 18:13 ` Henry Bent
2017-03-01 18:27 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-03-01 19:18 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-01 19:25 ` Henry Bent
2017-03-01 19:29 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-03-01 19:32 ` Henry Bent
2017-03-01 19:49 ` Random832
2017-03-01 19:51 ` Warner Losh
2017-03-01 20:18 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-03-01 20:28 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-01 20:32 ` Warner Losh
2017-03-02 13:55 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2017-03-02 14:15 ` Jim Capp
2017-03-02 1:22 ` Jason Stevens
2017-03-02 6:50 ` Cory Smelosky
2017-03-02 13:36 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-04 3:29 ` Warren Toomey
2017-03-04 12:51 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-06 15:33 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2017-03-06 15:57 ` ron minnich
2017-03-06 16:20 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-03-06 22:52 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-07 6:52 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2017-03-07 13:25 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-06 16:21 ` Dan Cross
2017-03-06 16:45 ` Ron Natalie
2017-03-06 20:50 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-03-07 15:07 ` Ron Natalie
2017-03-07 15:13 ` Ron Natalie
2017-03-07 15:28 ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-07 19:44 ` Ron Natalie [this message]
2017-03-06 18:00 ` ron minnich
2017-03-06 18:22 ` Dan Cross
2017-03-06 19:24 ` Nemo
2017-03-06 16:48 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-06 15:57 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-06 22:29 ` ron minnich
2017-03-06 22:59 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-06 23:31 ` Steve Johnson
2017-03-06 23:32 ` Cory Smelosky
2017-03-06 23:44 ` Steve Johnson
2017-03-06 23:48 ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-06 23:53 ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-07 0:42 ` Warren Toomey
2017-03-07 0:33 ` Random832
2017-03-07 0:50 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-06 16:19 ` Jason Stevens
2017-03-06 19:06 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2017-03-06 20:32 ` ron minnich
2017-03-06 19:36 ` Warren Toomey
2017-03-06 20:17 ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-06 22:19 ` Warren Toomey
2017-03-03 20:06 Noel Chiappa
2017-03-03 20:28 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-03 23:12 ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-03 23:56 ` Wesley Parish
2017-03-04 0:29 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-03-04 1:01 ` Henry Bent
[not found] ` <CAH1jEzZPonQuq_4YJWN=cpaB9J8q2+TU-zRWx+Bg+29SUvfOVQ@mail.gmail.com>
2017-03-04 3:23 ` Nick Downing
2017-03-04 10:04 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-03-04 16:28 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-04 16:34 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-05 19:15 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-03-05 19:25 ` Warner Losh
2017-03-05 19:55 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-06 9:35 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-03-06 0:13 ` Josh Good
2017-03-05 15:44 ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-05 18:26 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-03-05 18:55 ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-05 19:10 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-03-05 21:36 ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-05 22:03 ` Mutiny
2017-03-04 15:39 Noel Chiappa
2017-03-04 16:02 ` Jason Stevens
2017-03-04 17:53 ` Jacob Goense
2017-03-04 18:37 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-03-04 18:38 ` Ron Natalie
2017-03-04 20:39 ` Cory Smelosky
2017-03-04 21:05 ` Jacob Goense
2017-03-05 17:54 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-03-05 18:24 ` Mutiny
2017-03-08 12:26 Doug McIlroy
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