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From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] cat -v and other complaints
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 16:36:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180829233605.GJ8423@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1808300825340.41601@aneurin.horsfall.org>

On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 08:34:05AM +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Aug 2018, Clem Cole wrote:
> >That said, I give the Linux folks great credit for the addition of modules
> >was huge and it took BSD and the other UNIX systems a few years really
> >pick up that idea in the same way (yes Solaris, Tru64 and eventually HPUX
> >etc.. had something too but again - my comment about being generally
> >available applies).
> 
> Wasn't SunOS first with dynamic kernel modules, or is my memory worse than I
> thought?  Linux may have been around at the time, but we never used in the
> shop until much later (Red Hat, nicknamed Dead Rat).

Yep.  And Linux has loadable modules because I posted the SunOS 4.x man
pages for the SunOS loadable modules to the kernel list.  Proving once
again that the open source guys aren't always the greatest at coming up
with the ideas but once you show them that it can be done, it gets done
quickly.  I think they had a prototype working in a week.

> Never mind "systemd"; I'm having enough trouble coming to grips with
> "launchd" on the Mac...  Gimme /etc/inetd.conf any time.

Amen, brother.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-29 23:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-29 14:25 Clem Cole
2018-08-29 22:34 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-08-29 23:36   ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2018-08-30  1:14     ` Clem cole
2018-08-30  1:15       ` Clem cole
2018-08-30  2:43       ` Kevin Bowling
2018-08-30  2:59         ` George Michaelson
2018-08-31  0:27         ` Dave Horsfall
2018-08-31  0:41           ` Dan Cross
2018-08-31  1:58             ` Larry McVoy
2018-08-31 11:38           ` ron
2018-08-31 14:41           ` [TUHS] UNIX System names - since UNIX was a Trademark Clem Cole
2018-08-31 15:13             ` Eric Wayte
2018-08-31 15:17             ` William Pechter
2018-08-31 15:25               ` Clem Cole
2018-09-01  0:10               ` John P. Linderman
2018-09-01  0:18                 ` ron
2018-09-01  0:55                   ` Nemo
2018-09-01  7:37                     ` Dave Horsfall
2018-09-01 13:54                       ` Nemo
2018-09-01 17:03                       ` Paul Winalski
2018-09-03  1:14                         ` Robert Brockway
2018-09-30 20:57                 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-10-01 16:26                   ` Paul Winalski
2018-09-01  0:00             ` Dave Horsfall
2018-08-31 21:56 ` [TUHS] cat -v and other complaints Cág
2018-09-01  3:37   ` Andrew Warkentin
2018-09-03 18:04     ` Cág
2018-09-03 18:11       ` Kurt H Maier
2018-09-03 18:56         ` Cág
2018-09-04  6:10           ` Andy Kosela
2018-09-04  6:41             ` ron minnich
2018-09-04  9:34               ` Andy Kosela
2018-09-04 10:23                 ` Dan Cross
2018-09-04 14:22                 ` ron minnich
2018-09-06 20:02                   ` Andy Kosela
2018-09-06 20:49                     ` ron minnich
2018-09-06 21:55                       ` Andy Kosela
2018-09-07  1:59                         ` Dan Cross
2018-09-07  4:40                           ` Andy Kosela
2018-09-30 21:32           ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-09-03 20:08         ` Bakul Shah
2018-09-03 20:41           ` Kurt H Maier
2018-09-03 21:46             ` Bakul Shah
2018-09-04  0:52               ` Kurt H Maier
2018-09-06 20:29 Norman Wilson
2018-09-06 22:16 ` Andy Kosela
2018-09-08 12:02 [TUHS] [TUHS} " Doug McIlroy
2018-09-08 13:36 ` Will Senn
2018-09-08 14:22   ` [TUHS] " Ralph Corderoy
2018-09-08 16:10     ` Arthur Krewat

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