From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS] 14 new TUHS members
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2016 07:31:46 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161221153146.GC15531@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANiMCTMdyJfcTJC6KzAxtqWMhMAnQaOyyt=0v8baDrOzjzS7LQ@mail.gmail.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-21 15:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-21 9:03 Warren Toomey
2016-12-21 11:15 ` Diomidis Spinellis
2016-12-21 13:16 ` Avinash Sonawane
2016-12-21 14:41 ` Kay Parker
2016-12-21 15:04 ` Edouard KLEIN
2016-12-21 15:31 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2016-12-22 0:12 ` Wesley Parish
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20161221153146.GC15531@mcvoy.com \
--to=lm@mcvoy.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).