* Re: [TUHS] Welcome to new TUHS subscribers
2019-10-09 20:13 [TUHS] Welcome to new TUHS subscribers Warren Toomey
@ 2019-10-09 20:50 ` Tomasz Rola
2019-10-09 23:26 ` Dave Horsfall
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From: Tomasz Rola @ 2019-10-09 20:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: tuhs
On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 06:13:21AM +1000, 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!".
Aloha!
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AIX - a very short period inside Solaris period (user)
Linux 1994-... (finally, a small time admin)
OpenBSD ... (if I migrate there) - ...
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* Re: [TUHS] Welcome to new TUHS subscribers
2019-10-09 20:13 [TUHS] Welcome to new TUHS subscribers Warren Toomey
2019-10-09 20:50 ` Tomasz Rola
@ 2019-10-09 23:26 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-10-09 23:51 ` Warren Toomey
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From: Dave Horsfall @ 2019-10-09 23:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society
On Thu, 10 Oct 2019, 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!".
May this list live forever!
-- Dave
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* Re: [TUHS] Welcome to new TUHS subscribers
2019-10-09 20:13 [TUHS] Welcome to new TUHS subscribers 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
2019-10-09 23:58 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
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From: Warren Toomey @ 2019-10-09 23:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: tuhs
On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 06:13:21AM +1000, Warren Toomey wrote:
> The TUHS list generally has a high signal/noise ratio on the history of
> Unix, the systems and software, and anecdotes from those who used the
> various flavours. Occasionally, we drift a bit off-topic and I'll gently
> nudge the conversation back to Unix history.
Heh, I just realised that I'm the UNIX of mail list administrators. I say
nothing when you do the usual things, but give you a cryptic warning when
you do something not quite right :)
Ciao, Warren
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* Re: [TUHS] Welcome to new TUHS subscribers
2019-10-09 23:51 ` Warren Toomey
@ 2019-10-10 0:03 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-10-10 0:22 ` greg travis
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From: Dave Horsfall @ 2019-10-10 0:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society
On Thu, 10 Oct 2019, Warren Toomey wrote:
> Heh, I just realised that I'm the UNIX of mail list administrators. I
> say nothing when you do the usual things, but give you a cryptic warning
> when you do something not quite right :)
Was it "ed" that only gave two error messages? Something like "tmp" for
/tmp being full, and "?" for "error - you get to figure it out"?
And there was the car (ObUS: auto) that only had a single warning light:
"The user is supposed to know what it means."
-- Dave
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* Re: [TUHS] Welcome to new TUHS subscribers
2019-10-10 0:03 ` Dave Horsfall
@ 2019-10-10 0:22 ` greg travis
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From: greg travis @ 2019-10-10 0:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Dave Horsfall; +Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society
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On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 8:03 PM Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:
> And there was the car (ObUS: auto) that only had a single warning light:
> "The user is supposed to know what it means."
>
> -- Dave
>
"Ken Thompson has an automobile which he helped design. Unlike most
automobiles, it has neither speedometer, nor gas gauge, nor any of the
other numerous idiot lights which plague the modern driver. Rather, if the
driver makes a mistake, a giant “?” lights up in the center of the
dashboard. “The experienced driver,” says Thompson, “will usually know
what’s wrong.”"
(https://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/new90/366.html)
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* Re: [TUHS] Welcome to new TUHS subscribers
2019-10-09 20:13 [TUHS] Welcome to new TUHS subscribers Warren Toomey
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2019-10-09 23:51 ` Warren Toomey
@ 2019-10-09 23:58 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2019-10-10 9:21 ` Tony Travis
2019-10-10 15:27 ` [TUHS] Welcome to new TUHS subscribers Larry W. Cashdollar via TUHS
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From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey @ 2019-10-09 23:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Warren Toomey; +Cc: tuhs
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On Thursday, 10 October 2019 at 6:13:21 +1000, 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!".
"Welcome!".
> The TUHS list generally has a high signal/noise ratio on the history of
> Unix, the systems and software, and anecdotes from those who used the
> various flavours. Occasionally, we drift a bit off-topic and I'll gently
> nudge the conversation back to Unix history.
You might like to point at the COFF list (coff@tuhs.org) for
(slightly) off-topic posts.
Greg
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* Re: [TUHS] Welcome to new TUHS subscribers
2019-10-09 20:13 [TUHS] Welcome to new TUHS subscribers Warren Toomey
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2019-10-09 23:58 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
@ 2019-10-10 9:21 ` Tony Travis
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
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From: Tony Travis @ 2019-10-10 9:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: tuhs
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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* Re: [TUHS] Welcome to new TUHS subscribers
2019-10-09 20:13 [TUHS] Welcome to new TUHS subscribers Warren Toomey
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2019-10-10 9:21 ` Tony Travis
@ 2019-10-10 15:27 ` Larry W. Cashdollar via TUHS
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From: Larry W. Cashdollar via TUHS @ 2019-10-10 15:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Warren Toomey, tuhs
On 10/9/19, 4:13 PM, "TUHS on behalf of Warren Toomey" <tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org on behalf of wkt@tuhs.org> 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!".
Hello, Everyone!
My first interaction with a UNIX system was with a Dec Alpha in my C programming class ~ 1993. In 1994 I installed Slackware on my 486.
I've worked with HP-UX, SCO, BSD, *inux*, Solaris, IRIX, AIX since then. I have a Sun Ultra 1500, Sun Ultra 5 and an SGI Indy R5000 all running at home
In my office.
Thank you!,
Larry Cashdollar.
Yes, that's my real name. __
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