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From: rminnich@gmail.com (ron minnich)
Subject: [TUHS] Device special files
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2018 22:38:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP6exYKQ+YUvFC8iYcE6VPVxqUSvDYHpTxf_Tzo7vKhn=QMMSQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2MLBnHq0nQnrec+-tLuCOhMXQdLNZvwfEd79nPnSxsQ9g@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 2:06 PM Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:

>  One might suggest it was pretty damned elegant for the time.
>

yes, it was quite fine then.

Getting distributed systems right is not simple. There have been lots of
efforts to get it right by larding more and more software over what's
already there. It can be made to work but it's never very nice. I tend to
prefer the take stuff away approach myself, but to each his own.

ron
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-06 15:56 ron minnich
2018-02-06 17:56 ` Larry McVoy
2018-02-06 18:03   ` ron minnich
2018-02-06 19:48 ` Random832
2018-02-07  1:25   ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2018-02-07  1:36     ` Ron Natalie
2018-02-07  1:40       ` Clem Cole
2018-02-07  1:47         ` Henry Bent
2018-02-07  1:48     ` Dave Horsfall
2018-02-07  2:06       ` Dan Cross
2018-02-07 16:24         ` Arthur Krewat
2018-02-07 16:34           ` Dan Cross
2018-02-07 16:34           ` Nemo
2018-02-07 16:59             ` ron minnich
2018-02-08  0:39           ` Dave Horsfall
2018-02-08 16:18             ` Arthur Krewat
2018-02-08 22:47               ` Dave Horsfall
2018-02-07  2:13       ` Bakul Shah
2018-02-07  5:39         ` Dave Horsfall
2018-02-07 18:36           ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2018-02-07 19:07             ` Ian Zimmerman
2018-02-07 22:05               ` Clem Cole
2018-02-07 22:38                 ` ron minnich [this message]
2018-02-07 22:48                 ` Ron Natalie
2018-02-08 18:59                   ` Random832
2018-02-07 23:06                 ` Bakul Shah
2018-02-08 19:06               ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2018-02-07 22:04             ` Dave Horsfall
2018-02-08 13:03               ` Rafael R Obelheiro
2018-02-08 19:25               ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2018-02-07  1:38 Noel Chiappa
2018-02-09  0:09 Doug McIlroy

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