From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,HTML_MESSAGE, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id f5e52abe for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2019 01:07:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 6CCF79BB80; Tue, 27 Aug 2019 11:07:29 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4B1A9B4F3; Tue, 27 Aug 2019 11:07:16 +1000 (AEST) Authentication-Results: minnie.tuhs.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key; unprotected) header.d=ccc.com header.i=@ccc.com header.b="bl0KHk28"; dkim-atps=neutral Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 144689B4F3; Tue, 27 Aug 2019 11:07:15 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mail-wm1-f47.google.com (mail-wm1-f47.google.com [209.85.128.47]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 67FA49B4F2 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2019 11:07:14 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mail-wm1-f47.google.com with SMTP id i63so1198430wmg.4 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2019 18:07:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=ccc.com; s=google; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=iCgMXqvPe5wBqTsv8yO2qEYzr1OTHNa6Z7sbjffjzqA=; b=bl0KHk28nqHKcRFpx4FbfMPcwbD+59NemUzPdPVj1vtMztpLwOU/pexRr7y2lAKm1d dCmN3PYsk/gw9+JB8urlBoISBSE7UXaqLbp4nJ25ZoVS09hznYdsXxeZWtc9iKTTzMVR hPQ5Qz2E8sDxYQUm/xxDGuiwPuYzOBnPt4gj0= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=iCgMXqvPe5wBqTsv8yO2qEYzr1OTHNa6Z7sbjffjzqA=; b=Rj4fGXfDh0V2d+o0RcDNuZNhK3p5A0nSPPsLrBolK52lMT+ol/cmyiFngedsVsVD2H Gh0a2pxeq7k/U1g3NGRfXIGEBOGVF9nI9jDNBexWn1YkRoGONNemRpjPnc7+mabsqBCf SLJV2S2pEACTqaR3LiP/Z4Ux2BsBL22G66YElgA7j8skweosvP9MRYWLOPAW+oLWQ8KW nY1DTabhgMmCRl4oAmZXHK0RvT5VromEZ1g82JJ0MGKTy+paQcgKy36gbmkv6xnMhFeR Dfp9bn//1vEfoNQ9ro+WNY6L/goHqkYrt1mEdvkmG+LAeDrl/9M8t+Qq6A/tCmTvCesJ DkUw== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAVKE+9dLiDDL48G6h+LInmcVTGpIGcZB06NUg8DTLhqimq2IRxW 0tL0FNB5kFIyOFlFptv9CqrC278KVHOhCokC+2Hv6w== X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqyrbiak8P/KkDkfO7xIpfcdfXtw0OqjQDR1JkfcM3WAGsPPQNSYVX/GdglzVbTgIN6943fosGg2C2wY+kkGO6I= X-Received: by 2002:a05:600c:225a:: with SMTP id a26mr25907137wmm.81.1566868032901; Mon, 26 Aug 2019 18:07:12 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <13c5c36e-c84d-e020-d09e-51c8c502dc6d@kilonet.net> <75a32043-4830-ba04-ee0f-023c5f5ade3f@gmail.com> <20190827003013.GS13570@mcvoy.com> In-Reply-To: From: Clem Cole Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 21:06:46 -0400 Message-ID: To: Rob Pike Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="00000000000082e73905910ee48b" Subject: Re: [TUHS] If not Linux, then what? X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: TUHS main list Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" --00000000000082e73905910ee48b Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 8:59 PM Rob Pike wrote: > I always thought Research 10th Edition was fantastic. Even the 8th edition > was an improvement on most of its successors. But things flowed another > way, with muddy streams mixing in. > > -rob > Rob - Fair enough/excellent point/I agree from a pure technology stand point, but the problem was anything from Research after Seventh Edition was the limited availability so few people out side really used it (and I'll have include Plan 9 in that family also - although you guys did get it out more widely than 8th or 10th UNIX -- funny by that point, I had read about it and seen the manuals in a book store in the UK, but I did not get the mess with the actual 10th edition code until a few years after I had a Plan 9 boot floppy that Dave gave me running in a laptop). Clem --00000000000082e73905910ee48b Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Mon, = Aug 26, 2019 at 8:59 PM Rob Pike <r= obpike@gmail.com> wrote:
I always th= ought Research 10th Edition was fantastic. Even the 8th edition was an impr= ovement on most of its successors. But things flowed another way, with mudd= y streams mixing in.

-rob

Rob - Fair enough/excellent point/I agree fro= m a pure technology stand point, but the problem was anything from Research= after Seventh Edition was the limited availability so few people out side = really used it (and I'll have include Plan 9 in that family also - alth= ough you guys did get it out more widely than 8th or 10th UNIX -- funny by = that point, I had read about it and seen the manuals in a book store in the= UK, but I did not get the mess with the actual 10th edition code until=C2= =A0 a few years after I had a Plan 9 boot floppy that Dave gave me running = in a laptop).

Clem

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