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* Re: [TUHS] Thanks for Virtuallyfun! (was Re: Happy birthday, 386BSD!)
@ 2019-07-14 19:19 Noel Chiappa
  2019-07-15  9:33 ` Wesley Parish
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Noel Chiappa @ 2019-07-14 19:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: tuhs; +Cc: jnc

    > 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

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* [TUHS] Happy birthday, 386BSD!
@ 2019-07-14  5:56 Dave Horsfall
  2019-07-14  6:53 ` Jason Stevens
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Dave Horsfall @ 2019-07-14  5:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society

386BSD was released on this day in 1992, when William and Lynne Jolitz 
started the Open Source movement; well, that's what my notes say, and 
corrections are welcome (I know that Gilmore likes to take credit for just 
about everything).

-- Dave

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2019-07-14  5:56 [TUHS] Happy birthday, 386BSD! Dave Horsfall
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