From: Adam Thornton <athornton@gmail.com>
To: David Arnold <davida@pobox.com>,
The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] What happened with XENIX? (was Re: Unix/World Magazines)
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2020 21:56:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D0A5742C-05C8-43B3-8CDD-EE3B2A446A64@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AF770512-52FD-4A2C-8E54-6487AA085E87@pobox.com>
On Jan 8, 2020, at 8:25 PM, David Arnold <davida@pobox.com> wrote:
> Whenever one system becomes too popular, the definition of “Unix” drifts in that direction …
“All the world’s a VAX” became “All the world’s a Linux/x86 box” about 1996, and then in 2010 or so, “all the world’s a Linux/amd64 box.”
At least ARM saved us from another total processor monoculture.
Adam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-09 4:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-07 10:56 [TUHS] Unix/World Magazines Warren Toomey
2020-01-07 22:22 ` [TUHS] What happened with XENIX? (was Re: Unix/World Magazines) reed
2020-01-07 23:12 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-07 23:27 ` Warner Losh
2020-01-07 23:36 ` Adam Thornton
2020-01-08 7:46 ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-01-08 12:40 ` Matt Rudge
2020-01-08 16:56 ` Heinz Lycklama
2020-01-08 22:46 ` CHARLES KESTER
2020-01-08 7:46 ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-01-08 0:44 ` [TUHS] XENIX and Linux (was: What happened with XENIX? (was Re: Unix/World Magazines)) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-01-08 22:15 ` [TUHS] What happened with XENIX? (was Re: Unix/World Magazines) Dave Horsfall
2020-01-08 23:29 ` Harald Arnesen
2020-01-09 0:01 ` ron
2020-01-09 0:19 ` Heinz Lycklama
2020-01-09 0:19 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-09 3:25 ` David Arnold
2020-01-09 4:56 ` Adam Thornton [this message]
2020-01-07 23:21 ` Peter Cetinski
2020-01-08 0:50 ` [TUHS] IBM PC and XENIX (was: What happened with XENIX? (was Re: Unix/World Magazines)) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-01-08 2:58 ` reed
2020-01-08 12:18 ` [TUHS] What happened with XENIX? Michael Kjörling
2020-01-08 21:55 ` [TUHS] Dating quotes (was: What happened with XENIX?) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-01-08 23:48 ` reed
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