From: arnold@skeeve.com
To: marc.donner@gmail.com, crossd@gmail.com
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: LOC [was Re: Re: Re.: Princeton's "Unix: An Oral History": who was in the team in "The Attic"?
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2022 01:49:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202211090849.2A98nLRe006143@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEoi9W4dz7vvjyaXu26Zv5KXXujQzbh18=9wTrrW24qRS3zxig@mail.gmail.com>
Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com> wrote:
> To tie this back to TUHS a little bit...when did being a "sysadmin" become
> a thing unto itself? And is it just me, or has that largely been superceded
> by SRE (which I think of as what one used to, perhaps, call a "system
> programmer") and DevOps, which feels like a more traditional Unix-y kind of
> thing?
>
> - Dan C.
Sys admin was a thing in the mid-80s already; I worked as one at the Emory
U Computing Center for several years, ~ 1985 - 1990. Around then USENIX
started the LISA (Large Installation System Administratin) workshops.
Clem can undoubtedly tell us exactly when.
And yes, SRE + dev ops seem to have displaced that, with SRE focusing
more on keeping the bazillions of systems up and running, and DevOps on
things like build and CI/CD systems.
Personally, I'm glad to have gained the sys admin experience, but I
don't want to do it for a living; it's much more fun building product
and letting someone else have the headaches. :-)
Arnold
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-09 8:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-11 11:15 [TUHS] " Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS
2022-10-11 13:48 ` [TUHS] " Larry McVoy
2022-10-11 13:59 ` Warner Losh
2022-10-11 19:43 ` Marc Donner
2022-10-11 19:54 ` Larry McVoy
2022-10-11 20:02 ` Michael Kjörling
2022-10-11 20:08 ` Rob Pike
2022-10-11 21:07 ` Dan Cross
2022-10-11 21:41 ` Rob Pike
2022-10-12 6:59 ` arnold
2022-10-12 7:03 ` Michael Kjörling
2022-10-12 7:18 ` Rich Morin
2022-11-29 7:31 ` Joseph Holsten
2022-10-11 20:10 ` Larry McVoy
2022-10-11 20:14 ` Michael Kjörling
2022-10-11 20:33 ` [TUHS] LOC [was " Charles H Sauer (he/him)
2022-11-07 17:50 ` [TUHS] " Warner Losh
2022-11-07 19:57 ` Bakul Shah
2022-11-07 20:11 ` Dan Cross
2022-11-08 18:55 ` Marc Donner
2022-11-09 8:41 ` Dan Cross
2022-11-09 8:49 ` arnold [this message]
2022-11-09 20:17 ` Dave Horsfall
2022-11-09 9:01 ` steve jenkin
2022-11-09 10:55 ` Brad Spencer
2022-11-09 11:56 ` Stuart Remphrey
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