From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy) Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2016 07:31:46 -0800 Subject: [TUHS] 14 new TUHS members In-Reply-To: References: <20161221090327.GA21190@minnie.tuhs.org> <1482331261.612450.825968641.1F9509A8@webmail.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: <20161221153146.GC15531@mcvoy.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 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 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