From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 29233 invoked from network); 14 Nov 2022 19:18:14 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 14 Nov 2022 19:18:14 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CABAC41DFC; Tue, 15 Nov 2022 05:17:49 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mcvoy.com (mcvoy.com [192.169.23.250]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7933441DFB for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2022 05:17:39 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mcvoy.com (Postfix, from userid 3546) id 2356235E845; Mon, 14 Nov 2022 11:17:39 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2022 11:17:39 -0800 From: Larry McVoy To: Norman Wilson Message-ID: <20221114191739.GG16293@mcvoy.com> References: <221091F111EBACF012E50DDA19871666.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <221091F111EBACF012E50DDA19871666.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Message-ID-Hash: 6WN3JMUN6N4PU5USEE2DJKET372KEYII X-Message-ID-Hash: 6WN3JMUN6N4PU5USEE2DJKET372KEYII X-MailFrom: lm@mcvoy.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-tuhs.tuhs.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: tuhs@tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: Book: "You Are Not Expected to Understand This" List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 11:58:36AM -0500, Norman Wilson wrote: > Clem Cole: > > Yep -- but not surprising. There were a bunch of folks at DG that had > worked on a single-level store system (Project Fountain-Head) that had > failed [some of that story is described in Kidder's book]. > > ==== > > Are you sure? I thought Fountainhead was a Rand project. > > Norman Wilson > Toronto ON > > PS: if you don't get it, consider yourself fortunate. I get it. Teenage me thought Rand was a genius, adult me changed his mind. -- --- Larry McVoy Retired to fishing http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/boat