From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: SGI Software Usability II (IRIX 5.1 memo)
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 07:00:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171012140021.GK17135@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171012130443.2s7xnhughyj5667s@saucer.turnde.net>
I strongly suspect it was true, Tom Davis was an SGI employee as
were the other people mentioned.
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 02:04:43PM +0100, Michael-John Turner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I came across this on Lobsters[1] today and thought it may be of interest to
> the list:
> http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/tirix/embarrassing-memo.html
>
> It appears to be an internal SGI memo that's rather critical of IRIX 5.1.
> Does anyone know if it's true?
>
> [1] https://lobste.rs/
>
> Cheers, MJ
> --
> Michael-John Turner * mj at mjturner.net * http://mjturner.net/
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Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-12 14:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-12 13:04 Michael-John Turner
[not found] ` <AC831F18-D52F-4C0F-9E31-E4C7CD3F4A1E@gmail.com>
2017-10-12 13:43 ` Don Hopkins
2017-10-12 14:00 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2017-10-12 14:16 ` Don Hopkins
2017-10-12 14:55 ` Don Hopkins
2017-10-12 14:59 ` Larry McVoy
2017-10-12 15:09 ` Don Hopkins
2017-10-12 15:20 ` Don Hopkins
2017-10-12 14:22 ` AT&T taking over Sun: Panic! Don Hopkins
2017-10-13 15:59 ` SGI Software Usability II (IRIX 5.1 memo) Jose R. Valverde
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