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From: arnold@skeeve.com
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org, m.douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu
Subject: Re: [TUHS] (no subject)
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2021 01:23:18 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202104060723.1367NIFj020757@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKH6PiWo2D45uiHrhnyeypvKgJw5-k-ocasO67Q6-tiKEjx-yQ@mail.gmail.com>

M Douglas McIlroy <m.douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu> wrote:

> > I had been debating leaving Usenix for several years already;
> > the move to soft copy ;login: clinched it for me.
>
> I have been a loyal nonmember of ACM ever since the CACM was
> converted from a journal to a magazine. Usenix didn't strike quite
> such a decisive blow when it abandoned Computing Systems.
> ;login: remains as a Cheshire grin. It remains to be seen whether
> I'll continue to scan it in its non-tactile form.
>
> Doug

I know myself. When Linux Journal (for which I even wrote some articles)
went soft-copy, I downloaded the files for over 2 years, but never
bothered to read them, either on a computer or on my Kindle.

Oh well.  At least the threads here have been interesting reading.

Arnold

  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-06  7:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-05 22:43 M Douglas McIlroy
2021-04-06  7:23 ` arnold [this message]
2021-04-06 23:25 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-04-07  1:01   ` Jon Steinhart
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-01-11 23:02 Douglas McIlroy
2015-12-26  4:51 Doug McIlroy
2015-12-26  4:49 Doug McIlroy
2015-12-24 18:09 scj
2015-12-24 18:09 scj
2015-07-19 20:55 Brian Walden
2015-07-18 17:43 Mark Longridge
2015-07-18 17:53 ` Larry McVoy
2015-07-19  0:57   ` Warren Toomey
2015-07-19  1:13     ` Larry McVoy
2015-07-19  1:19       ` Milo Velimirovic
2010-01-13  3:42 Larry McVoy
2006-02-22  5:08 dmr
2005-07-20 21:17 Brantley Coile
2003-05-23  4:10 Dennis Ritchie
2003-05-24  3:42 ` Kenneth Stailey

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