From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Paul Winalski <paul.winalski@gmail.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Debugging help sought
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2020 09:24:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200806162401.GS10778@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABH=_VQYEikqeRR=1UcZJ98xM3BEYLP+rX7GGdFGi7zEVOw0Vg@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 12:19:49PM -0400, Paul Winalski wrote:
> On 8/6/20, Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:
> >
> > Isn't Adam working on v7? If so, not so great error messages are
> > sort of understood, it was early times. They got better.
> >
> Unix *was* a research project in those days, wasn't it? It's easy to
> forget that these days.
I think we also sometimes forget how small 64K was. Terseness wasn't
a choice.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-06 16:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-06 1:28 Adam Thornton
2020-08-06 2:01 ` Jim Capp
2020-08-06 3:04 ` Warner Losh
2020-08-06 3:08 ` Warner Losh
2020-08-06 5:55 ` Adam Thornton
2020-08-06 4:57 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-08-06 7:16 ` Otto Moerbeek
2020-08-06 15:47 ` Paul Winalski
2020-08-06 16:09 ` Larry McVoy
2020-08-06 16:19 ` Paul Winalski
2020-08-06 16:24 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2020-08-06 23:41 ` Adam Thornton
2020-08-07 0:35 ` Warner Losh
2020-08-07 4:30 ` Adam Thornton
2020-08-07 5:49 ` Warner Losh
2020-08-07 5:54 ` Adam Thornton
2020-08-07 16:07 Noel Chiappa
2020-08-07 17:11 ` John Cowan
2020-08-07 20:48 ` Warner Losh
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