From: Rich Salz <rich.salz@gmail.com>
To: Marc Donner <marc.donner@gmail.com>
Cc: sjenkin@canb.auug.org.au, TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: After 50 years, what has the Impact of Unix been?
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2024 10:02:14 -0500 [thread overview]
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> I would add one more important impact: making data a first class component
> of the computing environment.
>
Related to that is getting rid of "file types". I remember at a "lessons of
Unix" panel at a Usenix, that someone from the Labs gave an example of a
situation where the operating system treated a file as more than just a set
of bytes (think IBM, VMS, etc). Read a source file (required them to do a
bunch of file-conversion operations), write an output, perhaps changing a
variable name from 'foo' to 'bar', and then compiling the output, which
also required a bunch of file-conversion operations.
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Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-12-04 3:17 [TUHS] " sjenkin
2024-12-04 13:05 ` [TUHS] " Marc Donner
2024-12-04 13:40 ` William Cheswick
2024-12-04 15:02 ` Rich Salz [this message]
2024-12-05 3:08 ` John Levine
2024-12-05 15:19 ` [TUHS] Re: Pipes (was Re: After 50 years, what has the Impact of Unix been?) Dan Cross
2024-12-05 16:00 ` John R Levine
2024-12-05 16:17 ` Heinz Lycklama
2024-12-05 17:06 ` Marc Rochkind
2024-12-05 17:53 ` John Cowan
2024-12-05 18:05 ` John Levine
2024-12-05 17:22 ` Paul Winalski
2024-12-05 18:19 ` Ron Natalie
2024-12-06 2:29 ` Adam Thornton
2024-12-07 20:38 ` Ron Natalie
2024-12-05 16:55 ` Adam Thornton
2024-12-05 17:35 ` Chet Ramey via TUHS
2024-12-05 20:55 ` arnold
2024-12-05 21:12 ` Dan Cross
2024-12-05 21:50 ` Marc Rochkind
2024-12-05 22:03 ` Warner Losh
2024-12-05 22:19 ` Chet Ramey via TUHS
2024-12-05 23:07 ` Marc Rochkind
2024-12-06 8:16 ` Diomidis Spinellis
2024-12-06 0:46 ` Alexis
2024-12-06 21:46 ` Chet Ramey via TUHS
2024-12-05 23:07 ` arnold
2024-12-06 1:09 ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-12-06 1:31 ` Greg A. Woods
2024-12-06 2:05 ` Steve Nickolas
2024-12-06 16:44 ` arnold
2024-12-05 22:05 ` Bakul Shah via TUHS
2024-12-06 2:02 ` John Levine
2024-12-06 2:21 ` Dan Cross
2024-12-06 16:46 ` arnold
2024-12-04 19:07 [TUHS] Re: After 50 years, what has the Impact of Unix been? Douglas McIlroy
2024-12-06 1:36 Douglas McIlroy
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