From: kwall@kurtwerks.com (Kurt Wall)
Subject: [TUHS] Mention TUHS in Linux Magazine (US)?
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 21:19:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200504292119.40082.kwall@kurtwerks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11918.1114801823@jpeek.com>
On Friday 29 April 2005 15:10, Jerry Peek enlightened us thusly:
> On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 10:59:21 -0700, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> > More power to you. Just keep a sharp eye out for things that
> > are touted as "new improved GNU features" that have been around
> > since the days of 6th Edition or 7th Edition Unix.
>
> Thanks for that wise advice, Carl. I actually started on a VAX
> running 4.1 BSD, so I'm not always clear about what's real. ;-)
> I've been checking manpages online and trying to keep it straight.
>
> While I'm at it, I wanted to say thanks to Tim Newsham for
> reminding me of the paper "Program design in the UNIX environment"
> (at http://plan9.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/doc/84/kp.ps.gz) and to Dennis
> for his home page (http://plan9.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/index.html --
> which I found, BTW, on Tim's "Links" page). Both of them have lots
> of fascinating and useful info that took me way back from my GUI
> GNU-ey ;-) environment. I've sat here for a couple of hours,
> reading and thinking. I'll work this into my August column --
> set off in a sidebar or some way to call attention to it.
> Today's Linux users need to read and understand this stuff.
> It was a great reminder for me. Thanks again, everyone.
I quite agree. I started with some SVR3 UNIX but wound up using
Linux because it was free and worked with the hardware I had at
the time. It's a constant source of pleasure to work with the old
UNIX hands around my shop and learn what my roots are. I even
have some books around here with Jerry Peek's name on them... :-)
Kurt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-30 1:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-29 17:59 Carl Lowenstein
2005-04-29 19:10 ` Jerry Peek
2005-04-30 1:19 ` Kurt Wall [this message]
2005-04-30 7:31 ` Wesley Parish
2005-04-30 11:35 ` Tim Shoppa
2005-04-30 18:28 ` Jerry Peek
2005-05-01 8:21 ` Wesley Parish
2005-05-09 8:41 ` [TUHS] Sad news from IBM J. R. Valverde
[not found] <200504290913.j3T9DdGA016881@skeeve.com>
2005-04-29 10:05 ` [TUHS] Mention TUHS in Linux Magazine (US)? Warren Toomey
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-04-28 16:50 Jerry Peek
2005-04-29 1:55 ` Tim Newsham
2005-04-29 7:04 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2005-04-29 9:02 ` Warren Toomey
2005-04-29 16:20 ` Jerry Peek
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