From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Cc: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Re: [TUHS] The origin of /home
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 11:26:49 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181010152649.73DEF18C08E@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> (raw)
> From: Norman Wilson
> Unfortunately all the quick hacks and poorly-considered tweaks of the
> past have long since been cast in stone by widespread convention
There seem to be two kind of people in the world; i) those who cannot bring
themselves to change anything, and ii) those who change all sort of things,
usually with no good reason (perhaps just to be different).
The world of Unix seems to be thickly stocked with both.
Noel
next reply other threads:[~2018-10-10 15:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-10 15:26 Noel Chiappa [this message]
2018-10-10 15:45 ` Clem Cole
2018-10-10 15:48 ` David
2018-10-13 6:58 ` Michael Kjörling
2018-10-12 0:15 ` Dave Horsfall
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-10-10 14:43 Norman Wilson
2018-10-10 16:26 ` arnold
2018-10-11 19:10 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-10-10 17:08 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-10-11 0:22 ` Steve Nickolas
2018-10-11 2:33 ` David Arnold
2018-09-28 2:39 Doug McIlroy
2018-09-27 23:14 Noel Chiappa
2018-09-28 5:27 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2018-09-27 15:33 Noel Chiappa
2018-09-27 20:15 ` Dan Cross
2018-09-27 14:31 Noel Chiappa
2018-09-27 12:08 Cág
2018-09-27 12:30 ` Alec Muffett
2018-09-27 12:58 ` Donald ODona
2018-09-27 13:54 ` John P. Linderman
2018-09-27 14:09 ` Ronald Natalie
2018-09-27 14:18 ` Jon Forrest
2018-09-27 14:28 ` Arrigo Triulzi
2018-09-27 15:36 ` Jon Forrest
2018-09-27 15:54 ` Arrigo Triulzi
2018-09-27 18:49 ` Jon Forrest
2018-09-28 0:50 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-10-01 1:52 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-10-10 2:38 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-10-10 3:07 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-09-27 17:33 ` Donald ODona
2018-09-27 14:47 ` Dan Cross
2018-09-27 17:20 ` arnold
2018-09-27 20:42 ` Cág
2018-09-27 21:07 ` Dan Cross
2018-09-27 22:04 ` Clem Cole
2018-09-27 22:18 ` Henry Bent
2018-09-28 8:33 ` Tony Finch
2018-09-28 18:23 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2018-09-28 16:02 ` Nemo
2018-09-28 16:15 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-09-28 17:28 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-09-28 19:38 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-09-28 19:47 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-09-28 20:30 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-09-28 20:00 ` Nemo
2018-09-28 21:07 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
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