From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org>
Cc: "tuhs@tuhs.org" <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Chaosnet for 4.1BSD
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2018 08:41:41 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181117164141.GF5875@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7wbm6naf0a.fsf@junk.nocrew.org>
On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 03:40:53PM +0000, Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
> Why oh why is there such a high correlation between archaic obsolete
> systems and sheer hacking joy?
I'm not doing that hacking, too old and burnt out, but for those who
still have some juice left my guess is it is fun because the older
systems were pretty simple. A kernel and a few well known device
drivers is not a lot of code (the millions of lines of Linux kernel
code is almost all drivers).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-17 16:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-17 13:10 Lars Brinkhoff
2018-11-17 13:41 ` jsteve
2018-11-17 15:40 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2018-11-17 16:41 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2018-11-17 18:21 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-11-18 12:50 ` jsteve
2018-11-29 5:51 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2018-11-29 15:35 ` Warner Losh
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