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 23811 invoked from network); 2 Feb 2023 22:41:48 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 2 Feb 2023 22:41:48 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3CCB41225; Fri, 3 Feb 2023 08:41:43 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mcvoy.com (mcvoy.com [192.169.23.250]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4C15841223 for ; Fri, 3 Feb 2023 08:41:37 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mcvoy.com (Postfix, from userid 3546) id DEEE735E603; Thu, 2 Feb 2023 14:41:36 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2023 14:41:36 -0800 From: Larry McVoy To: Dan Cross Message-ID: <20230202224136.GI30555@mcvoy.com> References: <20230202190232.C79D118C073@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Message-ID-Hash: S4GYXRPBYL2NRCE2CW6YJQGDNLNVCJ3Q X-Message-ID-Hash: S4GYXRPBYL2NRCE2CW6YJQGDNLNVCJ3Q 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: Noel Chiappa , TUHS X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: Proper use of TUHS (was Re: Typesetter C compiler) List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On Thu, Feb 02, 2023 at 05:36:44PM -0500, Dan Cross wrote: > On Thu, Feb 2, 2023 at 2:02 PM Noel Chiappa wrote: > > [snip] I don't > > have the energy to look through the tons of opinion posts about recent > > programming styles, to find the posts about actual Unix history which related > > to that compiler, > > [snip] > > On a semi-related note.... > > I have found TUHS a valuable resource, not just for discussing Unix > history, but for gaining a deeper understanding of systems which > informs my present and that I imagine will influence my future work as > well. > > However, lately it has become clear that this is not always a welcome > use of the list. I don't think COFF is universally appropriate for > that either. COFF lacks critical mass. It's a common problem, you have a mailing list with enough people that it is interesting and it gets too noisy so the admin creates a more chatty list and only a small subset of the people pick that up. I don't know how to fix that. > So, the question becomes: what _is_ that forum, if such a thing exists at all? Well, Hacker News was supposed to be really system-y. I tried it for a while, there was some good stuff there but it was drowned out by wannabe hackers talking about trivial stuff as if it were interesting. So I gave up. If you find a Unix/Systems sort of forum, that actually has something to say, let us know. -- --- Larry McVoy Retired to fishing http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/boat