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From: Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Ken Thompson!
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2019 17:25:22 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190204062522.GA78675@server.rulingia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ADFDF14544A65F35.ef751030-3bb2-4d5c-9c75-5ed8c0610df6@mail.outlook.com>

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On 2019-Feb-03 15:58:39 -0500, Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:
>Portability was designed as an >>import<< idea, and they tried to keep you
>from exporting by getting you to use 'value add.'

This is definitely the approach used by FSF/GNU - witness gcc and bash.

On 2019-Feb-04 09:07:52 +1100, Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:
>And yes, I know about POSIX compatibility, but so is Linux, and it's
>different enough from Unix to be damned annoying.

IMO, POSIX wouldn't exist without Unix.

On 2019-Feb-04 03:57:40 +0000, Jason Stevens <jsteve@superglobalmegacorp.com> wrote:
>What would be the portable OS to rule them all?  TripOS is the best I can imagine.  BCPL everywhere. 

That was my thought as well, though TripOS started in 1976 so it's likely
that the development team were aware of Unix and make have taken some of its
ideas onboard.

That said, Unix was not portable to start with.  I think that the important
parts were that the source was readily available within academia, it was
written in a high level language and it was small enough to be understood.

-- 
Peter Jeremy

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-04  6:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-03 20:23 Dave Horsfall
2019-02-03 21:39 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2019-02-03 22:07   ` Dave Horsfall
2019-02-03 22:33     ` Clem Cole
2019-02-04  2:03       ` Paul Winalski
2019-02-04  3:57       ` Jason Stevens
2019-02-04  6:25         ` Peter Jeremy [this message]
2019-02-04  7:59           ` Steve Nickolas
2019-02-04 15:04             ` Dave Horsfall
2019-02-04 15:39             ` Toby Thain
2019-02-04 17:08         ` Al Kossow
2019-02-03 22:39     ` Michael Kjörling
2019-02-03 22:55     ` Steve Nickolas
2019-02-03 23:37       ` Andy Kosela
2019-02-04  0:32     ` Larry McVoy
2019-02-04  1:00       ` Steve Nickolas
2019-02-04  9:43 ` Donald ODona
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-02-04 23:42 Doug McIlroy
2019-02-05  3:49 ` Larry McVoy
2019-02-04  1:09 [TUHS] Happy Birthday " Doug McIlroy
2018-02-03 21:46 [TUHS] Happy birthday, " Norman Wilson
2018-02-03 20:57 Dave Horsfall
2018-02-03 21:12 ` Donald ODona
2018-02-03 21:59   ` Andy Kosela
2018-02-04  0:52     ` Dave Horsfall
2018-02-04  1:07       ` Lyndon Nerenberg
     [not found]         ` <CAM4FNSvnR+ZkgMyJ-0+p7LKKAYzts-7268RgApteLoT9q=TtYA@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]           ` <CAM4FNSu-eQkt=AeUJ=2uvEwN=BQe7qdWn6ZCQmfFjb9at6uf_w@mail.gmail.com>
2018-02-04  1:29             ` Daniel Camolês
2018-02-04  1:35               ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-02-04  1:14       ` Warner Losh
2018-02-04 13:59         ` Theodore Ts'o
2018-02-05 13:13     ` Tony Finch
2018-02-05 15:45       ` Bakul Shah
2018-02-05 16:19         ` Clem Cole
2018-02-05 17:41           ` Bakul Shah
2018-02-05 21:58       ` Andy Kosela
2018-02-05 22:47         ` Dave Horsfall
2018-02-05 22:52           ` Toby Thain
2018-02-05 22:54           ` Dan Cross
2018-02-06  4:58             ` Theodore Ts'o
2018-02-06  5:05               ` Gregg Levine
2018-02-03 21:35 ` Will Senn
2018-02-03 21:49   ` Arthur Krewat
2018-02-03 22:59     ` Dave Horsfall
2018-02-04  0:51       ` Steve Simon
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2018-02-04  1:51                           ` Daniel Camolês
2018-02-04 17:33                             ` Toby Thain
2017-02-03 20:00 Dave Horsfall
2017-02-04 12:38 ` Michael Kjörling
2017-02-04 12:44   ` Steve Nickolas
2017-02-04 13:15     ` Michael Kjörling
2016-02-03 17:38 Dave Horsfall

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