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From: Wesley Parish <wobblygong@gmail.com>
To: Noel Chiappa <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Thanks for Virtuallyfun! (was Re: Happy birthday, 386BSD!)
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 21:33:53 +1200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACNPpea2VBXrxYHeQjo4oESKryg+89n4--Z_CRPeQ26du=macw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190714191907.3B48618C091@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>

I think that's the hallmark of great engineering, period. Mechanical,
civil, electrical ... most probably gravitational if our species ever
gets that far ... :)

Wesley Parish

On 7/15/19, Noel Chiappa <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
>     > From: Adam Thornton
>
>     > something designed for single-threaded composible text-filtering
>     > operations is now running almost all of the world's multithreaded
>     > user-facing graphical applications, but that's the vagaries of
> history
>     > for you.
>
> It's a perfect example of my aphorism, "The hallmark of truly great
> architecture is not how well it does the things it was designed to do, but
> how
> well it does things it was never expected to handle."
>
>        Noel
>

  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-15  9:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-14 19:19 Noel Chiappa
2019-07-15  9:33 ` Wesley Parish [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-07-14  5:56 [TUHS] Happy birthday, 386BSD! Dave Horsfall
2019-07-14  6:53 ` Jason Stevens
2019-07-14  8:17   ` [TUHS] Thanks for Virtuallyfun! (was Re: Happy birthday, 386BSD!) Michael Huff
2019-07-14  9:07     ` Jason Stevens
2019-07-14 17:47       ` Adam Thornton
2019-07-15  1:54         ` Jason Stevens

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