From: grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey)
Subject: [TUHS] 2018: eighteen months to the Unix 50th anniversary
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 17:53:51 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180110065351.GD27612@eureka.lemis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK7dMtAioNzrSh+M0OqxjqAJ-DACvsVpaeO2b7m0WNtnfw9gAQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Tuesday, 9 January 2018 at 23:25:32 -0700, Kevin Bowling wrote:
> Things like this don't really occur in one day [1] "Unix was born in
> 1969 not 1974" - dmr
>
> Is it fair to say 1/1/1970 is the spiritual christening and the day to
> celebrate?
Clearly wkt has something else in mind if he wrote "18 months". I
don't think 1 January 1970 had any meaning until it became the
(currently last) epoch.
Greg
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-10 6:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-09 0:30 Warren Toomey
2018-01-09 0:39 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-01-09 2:16 ` Noel Hunt
2018-01-09 2:38 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-01-09 7:30 ` Kevin Bowling
2018-01-09 18:09 ` Warner Losh
2018-01-10 3:34 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2018-01-10 4:11 ` Warner Losh
2018-01-10 5:23 ` George Michaelson
2018-01-10 6:25 ` Kevin Bowling
2018-01-10 6:53 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey [this message]
2018-01-10 10:57 ` Warren Toomey
2018-01-10 16:53 ` Grant Taylor
2018-01-10 13:23 ` Andy Kosela
2018-01-10 23:48 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-01-11 0:06 ` George Michaelson
2018-01-11 22:08 ` Robert Brockway
2018-01-11 1:22 Noel Chiappa
2018-01-11 21:45 ` Clem Cole
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