* [TUHS] 14 new TUHS members @ 2016-12-21 9:03 Warren Toomey 2016-12-21 11:15 ` Diomidis Spinellis 2016-12-21 13:16 ` Avinash Sonawane 0 siblings, 2 replies; 7+ messages in thread From: Warren Toomey @ 2016-12-21 9:03 UTC (permalink / raw) All, I've just got back from a few days away to find 14 new subscription requests to the TUHS mailing list. Welcome aboard to you all. Normally I only get one request a month, so I have some concerns about the legitimacy of all these requests, so accept my apologies in advance if there is any off-topic e-mails in the next few days. P.S The mail while I was away was very interesting. Noel, you might also be interested in the B interpreter and Robert Swierczick's B compiler the PDP-7 Unix. The original B compiler doesn't exist, so Robert took the 11/20 C compiler and "undid" the code that does types so that it "became" a B compiler. https://github.com/DoctorWkt/pdp7-unix/tree/master/src/other Cheers all Warren ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] 14 new TUHS members 2016-12-21 9:03 [TUHS] 14 new TUHS members Warren Toomey @ 2016-12-21 11:15 ` Diomidis Spinellis 2016-12-21 13:16 ` Avinash Sonawane 1 sibling, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread From: Diomidis Spinellis @ 2016-12-21 11:15 UTC (permalink / raw) I occasionally tweet pointers to archived messages when I see a gem in our list that merits wider dissemination. I did so this week: "The reasons AT&T's CEO and legal started using Unix are not the ones you'd expect. http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2016-December/007519.html" https://twitter.com/CoolSWEng/status/810498608718036992 If you'd prefer to keep this list less public I can avoid such posts. Diomidis On 21/12/2016 11:03, Warren Toomey wrote: > All, I've just got back from a few days away to find 14 new subscription > requests to the TUHS mailing list. Welcome aboard to you all. > > Normally I only get one request a month, so I have some concerns about > the legitimacy of all these requests, so accept my apologies in advance > if there is any off-topic e-mails in the next few days. > > P.S The mail while I was away was very interesting. Noel, you might > also be interested in the B interpreter and Robert Swierczick's B > compiler the PDP-7 Unix. The original B compiler doesn't exist, so > Robert took the 11/20 C compiler and "undid" the code that does types > so that it "became" a B compiler. > > https://github.com/DoctorWkt/pdp7-unix/tree/master/src/other > > Cheers all > Warren > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] 14 new TUHS members 2016-12-21 9:03 [TUHS] 14 new TUHS members Warren Toomey 2016-12-21 11:15 ` Diomidis Spinellis @ 2016-12-21 13:16 ` Avinash Sonawane 2016-12-21 14:41 ` Kay Parker 1 sibling, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread From: Avinash Sonawane @ 2016-12-21 13:16 UTC (permalink / raw) On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 2:33 PM, Warren Toomey <wkt at tuhs.org> wrote: > All, I've just got back from a few days away to find 14 new subscription > requests to the TUHS mailing list. Welcome aboard to you all. > > Normally I only get one request a month May be it's because "How Unix made it to the top"[0] made it to the front page of Hacker News[1], a forum frequented by geeks. [0] http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2016-December/007519.html [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13204054 -- Avinash Sonawane (rootKea) PICT, Pune https://rootkea.wordpress.com ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] 14 new TUHS members 2016-12-21 13:16 ` Avinash Sonawane @ 2016-12-21 14:41 ` Kay Parker 2016-12-21 15:04 ` Edouard KLEIN 0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread From: Kay Parker @ 2016-12-21 14:41 UTC (permalink / raw) Hello, I'm researching Computer history, especially Unix. I noticed the mentioned article reading a mail from this great list. On Wed, Dec 21, 2016, at 05:16 AM, Avinash Sonawane wrote: > On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 2:33 PM, Warren Toomey <wkt at tuhs.org> wrote: > > All, I've just got back from a few days away to find 14 new subscription > > requests to the TUHS mailing list. Welcome aboard to you all. > > > > Normally I only get one request a month > > May be it's because "How Unix made it to the top"[0] made it to the > front page of Hacker News[1], a forum frequented by geeks. > > [0] http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2016-December/007519.html > [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13204054 > > -- > Avinash Sonawane (rootKea) > PICT, Pune > https://rootkea.wordpress.com -- Kay Parker kayparker at mailite.com -- http://www.fastmail.com - The professional email service ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] 14 new TUHS members 2016-12-21 14:41 ` Kay Parker @ 2016-12-21 15:04 ` Edouard KLEIN 2016-12-21 15:31 ` Larry McVoy 2016-12-22 0:12 ` Wesley Parish 0 siblings, 2 replies; 7+ messages in thread From: Edouard KLEIN @ 2016-12-21 15:04 UTC (permalink / raw) I too got there from Hacker News. I like to read stories from the Unix Lore, and discover the history of the tools that are everywhere in my computing environment at home and at work. I fear I'll have nothing to contribute, as I'm younger than System V, but I'll read the list with interest :) On Wed, 21 Dec 2016 at 15:41 Kay Parker <kayparker at mailite.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm researching Computer history, especially Unix. I noticed the > mentioned article reading a mail from this great list. > > On Wed, Dec 21, 2016, at 05:16 AM, Avinash Sonawane wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 2:33 PM, Warren Toomey <wkt at tuhs.org> wrote: > > > All, I've just got back from a few days away to find 14 new > subscription > > > requests to the TUHS mailing list. Welcome aboard to you all. > > > > > > Normally I only get one request a month > > > > May be it's because "How Unix made it to the top"[0] made it to the > > front page of Hacker News[1], a forum frequented by geeks. > > > > [0] http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2016-December/007519.html > > [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13204054 > > > > -- > > Avinash Sonawane (rootKea) > > PICT, Pune > > https://rootkea.wordpress.com > > > -- > Kay Parker > kayparker at mailite.com > > -- > http://www.fastmail.com - The professional email service > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/attachments/20161221/7e2e094e/attachment.html> ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] 14 new TUHS members 2016-12-21 15:04 ` Edouard KLEIN @ 2016-12-21 15:31 ` Larry McVoy 2016-12-22 0:12 ` Wesley Parish 1 sibling, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread From: Larry McVoy @ 2016-12-21 15:31 UTC (permalink / raw) You newcomers are in for a treat. A bunch of the original Unix people are here. All sorts of gems get teased out. I get that too "young" feeling, I was just a little too young to make it to Bell Labs. Not sure they would have let me in but if I had been younger I would have fought hard to get in, those guys were my inspiration. On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 03:04:09PM +0000, Edouard KLEIN wrote: > I too got there from Hacker News. > > I like to read stories from the Unix Lore, and discover the history of the > tools that are everywhere in my computing environment at home and at work. > I fear I'll have nothing to contribute, as I'm younger than System V, but > I'll read the list with interest :) > > On Wed, 21 Dec 2016 at 15:41 Kay Parker <kayparker at mailite.com> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I'm researching Computer history, especially Unix. I noticed the > > mentioned article reading a mail from this great list. > > > > On Wed, Dec 21, 2016, at 05:16 AM, Avinash Sonawane wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 2:33 PM, Warren Toomey <wkt at tuhs.org> wrote: > > > > All, I've just got back from a few days away to find 14 new > > subscription > > > > requests to the TUHS mailing list. Welcome aboard to you all. > > > > > > > > Normally I only get one request a month > > > > > > May be it's because "How Unix made it to the top"[0] made it to the > > > front page of Hacker News[1], a forum frequented by geeks. > > > > > > [0] http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2016-December/007519.html > > > [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13204054 > > > > > > -- > > > Avinash Sonawane (rootKea) > > > PICT, Pune > > > https://rootkea.wordpress.com > > > > > > -- > > Kay Parker > > kayparker at mailite.com > > > > -- > > http://www.fastmail.com - The professional email service > > > > -- --- Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] 14 new TUHS members 2016-12-21 15:04 ` Edouard KLEIN 2016-12-21 15:31 ` Larry McVoy @ 2016-12-22 0:12 ` Wesley Parish 1 sibling, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread From: Wesley Parish @ 2016-12-22 0:12 UTC (permalink / raw) Well, don't feel yourself put out by your relative youth. I discovered Unix about the time I (seriously) discovered computers in 1990. I'd read up what little info I could get on computers while I was at High School in Canberra - they actually had (general theory) books on computers, but then, Canberra hosts an observatory and a couple of high-quality universities, so it stands to reason ... I read (in Bits and Bytes, an NZ computer mag) about Minix and Coherent, and their multitasking and whatnot, and thought, now I've got started in computers, let's get serious.(I'd got started on Macintosh then tried my hand at MS DOS) Unix is to computer geeks as Bach (or Coltrane) is to music geeks. Discussion and arguments aplenty, but nobody's denying the importance. Welcome aboard. Wesley Parish Quoting Edouard KLEIN <edouardklein at gmail.com>: > I too got there from Hacker News. > > I like to read stories from the Unix Lore, and discover the history of > the > tools that are everywhere in my computing environment at home and at > work. > I fear I'll have nothing to contribute, as I'm younger than System V, > but > I'll read the list with interest :) > > On Wed, 21 Dec 2016 at 15:41 Kay Parker <kayparker at mailite.com> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I'm researching Computer history, especially Unix. I noticed the > > mentioned article reading a mail from this great list. > > > > On Wed, Dec 21, 2016, at 05:16 AM, Avinash Sonawane wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 2:33 PM, Warren Toomey <wkt at tuhs.org> > wrote: > > > > All, I've just got back from a few days away to find 14 new > > subscription > > > > requests to the TUHS mailing list. Welcome aboard to you all. > > > > > > > > Normally I only get one request a month > > > > > > May be it's because "How Unix made it to the top"[0] made it to the > > > front page of Hacker News[1], a forum frequented by geeks. > > > > > > [0] http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2016-December/007519.html > > > [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13204054 > > > > > > -- > > > Avinash Sonawane (rootKea) > > > PICT, Pune > > > https://rootkea.wordpress.com > > > > > > -- > > Kay Parker > > kayparker at mailite.com > > > > -- > > http://www.fastmail.com - The professional email service > > > > > "I have supposed that he who buys a Method means to learn it." - Ferdinand Sor, Method for Guitar "A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on." -- Samuel Goldwyn ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
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