From: Tony Travis <tony.travis@minke-informatics.co.uk>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Welcome to new TUHS subscribers
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 10:21:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <739d7179-e68a-d00d-c018-775d32ebea12@minke-informatics.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191009201321.GA24336@minnie.tuhs.org>
On 09/10/2019 21:13, Warren Toomey wrote:
> All, we just had about a dozen new subscribers to the TUHS list. Rather than
> e-mail you all individually, I thought I'd use the list itself to say
> "Welcome!".
> [...]
Hi, Warren.
I'm one of your recent TUHS list subscribers - I first encountered AT&T
Version 7 Unix on a PDP11/34 and I've used all sorts of *nix since then.
One thing I noticed on this list is people's interest in the use of
UPPER/lower case in Unix. It's always puzzled me when everyone talks
about [the] PDP11 when, in fact, is says "pdp11" on the system itself:
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Pdp-11-40.jpg/250px-Pdp-11-40.jpg
DEC seemed to have a schizophrenic attitude to this in their
documentation, sometimes using "PDP11" and sometimes "pdp11".
Not sure if anyone else had a similar experience to me when visiting the
"Computer History Museum" in Palo Alto and being totally shocked to see
machines I used 'quite recently' there as museum exhibits!
I also made a complaint to the Museum, because the original Donald
Becker Beowulf was hidden away in a corner behind a Cray machine :-(
Nevertheless, a fantastic museum and I highly recommend a visit!
Bye,
Tony.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-10 9:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-09 20:13 Warren Toomey
2019-10-09 20:50 ` Tomasz Rola
2019-10-09 23:26 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-10-09 23:51 ` Warren Toomey
2019-10-10 0:03 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-10-10 0:22 ` greg travis
2019-10-09 23:58 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2019-10-10 9:21 ` Tony Travis [this message]
2019-10-11 13:19 ` [TUHS] BSD Password cracked (fun) SPC
2019-10-10 15:27 ` [TUHS] Welcome to new TUHS subscribers Larry W. Cashdollar via TUHS
2019-10-10 13:18 Noel Chiappa
2019-10-11 2:46 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-10-11 12:55 ` Tony Travis
2019-10-11 13:11 ` Michael Parson
2019-10-12 19:39 ` Nemo Nusquam
2019-10-12 20:42 ` Tony Travis
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