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=HTML_MESSAGE, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 12087 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2022 03:01:43 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 27 Jun 2022 03:01:43 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FEEC4088B; Mon, 27 Jun 2022 13:01:06 +1000 (AEST) Received: from cesium.clock.org (cesium.clock.org [157.22.10.65]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3455940784 for ; Mon, 27 Jun 2022 13:00:59 +1000 (AEST) Received: from smtpclient.apple (chronos.clock.org [10.0.1.120]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: eef-nbsd) by cesium.clock.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D377CCBCB6; Sun, 26 Jun 2022 20:00:54 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Apple-Mail=_1CC05122-3EE3-45EC-85B6-A6EDCE0450C2" Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 16.0 \(3696.100.31\)) From: Erik Fair In-Reply-To: <20220627004349.84ABA18C07B@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2022 20:00:53 -0700 Message-Id: <96EA8EF0-AC28-4710-A1C3-8D979B0CD4B0@netbsd.org> References: <20220627004349.84ABA18C07B@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> To: Noel Chiappa X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3696.100.31) Message-ID-Hash: UBI5U6ICVZIUMC3SL6KJXHSQTHOZ2C57 X-Message-ID-Hash: UBI5U6ICVZIUMC3SL6KJXHSQTHOZ2C57 X-MailFrom: fair@netbsd.org 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: Research Datakit notes List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: --Apple-Mail=_1CC05122-3EE3-45EC-85B6-A6EDCE0450C2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > On Jun 26, 2022, at 17:43, Noel Chiappa = wrote: >=20 > Interfaces are forever; like the screw in light-bulb. These days, it's = likely > an LED bulb on one side, powered by a reactor on the other - two = technologies > which were unforseen (and unforseeable) when the interface was = defined, well > over 100 years ago. To be specific: the =E2=80=9CEdison screw=E2=80=9D (or =E2=80=9CEdison = medium base=E2=80=9D or now E26) patented by Thomas Edison in 1881, = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edison_screw = It=E2=80=99s been said that =E2=80=9Chardware comes & goes, but software = is forever=E2=80=9D but I like to add =E2=80=9Csoftware comes & goes, = but protocols are forever.=E2=80=9D We should take care in how we design/define protocols and interfaces. Erik --Apple-Mail=_1CC05122-3EE3-45EC-85B6-A6EDCE0450C2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
On = Jun 26, 2022, at 17:43, Noel Chiappa <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:

Interfaces are forever; like = the screw in light-bulb. These days, it's likely
an LED = bulb on one side, powered by a reactor on the other - two = technologies
which were unforseen (and unforseeable) when = the interface was defined, well
over 100 years ago.

To be specific: the =E2=80=9CEdison screw=E2=80=9D (or = =E2=80=9CEdison medium base=E2=80=9D or now E26) patented by Thomas = Edison in 1881, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edison_screw

It=E2=80=99s been said = that =E2=80=9Chardware comes & goes, but software is forever=E2=80=9D = but I like to add =E2=80=9Csoftware comes & goes, but protocols are = forever.=E2=80=9D

We should take care in how we design/define protocols and = interfaces.

= Erik

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