From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 70fe0659 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 2019 19:19:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 16DAF9B9B9; Mon, 15 Jul 2019 05:19:31 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B88E393D52; Mon, 15 Jul 2019 05:19:10 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id A811693D52; Mon, 15 Jul 2019 05:19:08 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mercury.lcs.mit.edu (mercury.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.122]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3E0C693D30 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2019 05:19:08 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 11178) id 3B48618C091; Sun, 14 Jul 2019 15:19:07 -0400 (EDT) To: tuhs@tuhs.org Message-Id: <20190714191907.3B48618C091@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 15:19:07 -0400 (EDT) From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa) Subject: Re: [TUHS] Thanks for Virtuallyfun! (was Re: Happy birthday, 386BSD!) X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" > From: Adam Thornton > something designed for single-threaded composible text-filtering > operations is now running almost all of the world's multithreaded > user-facing graphical applications, but that's the vagaries of history > for you. It's a perfect example of my aphorism, "The hallmark of truly great architecture is not how well it does the things it was designed to do, but how well it does things it was never expected to handle." Noel