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From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Charles Anthony <charles.unix.pro@gmail.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] FYI: Internet Old Farts Club
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 21:24:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YfSlWDTqFqVbNPkF@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANV78LT-Nh0HiXEjD576e89hBHEq4vz2Jhq7g+6wR=7zKXof=g@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 05:59:52PM -0800, Charles Anthony wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2022, 17:56 Jan Schaumann via TUHS <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Kinda feel like being an Old Fart and joining a
> > Facebook group are mutually exclusive.  Now if it was
> > a newsgroup, perhaps, or a FidoNet BBS, ...
> >
> 
> We can do 'forum' on Multics.

There's a re-implementation of 'forum' called Discuss[1] that was
implemented by the MIT Student Information Board.  It has a 'forum'
feel, and the ss (subsystem) library provides the CLI interface which
is reminiscent of Multics forum.

[1] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.31.8576&rep=rep1&type=pdf

The ss and et (error_table) libraries that were originally written for
the Discuss system are still in use today as part of Linux's ext2/3/4
userspace utilities, e2fsprogs.  (The debugfs program uses the ss
library, as does a few regression test drivers for some unit tests).
The ss library is also used for the Kerberos v5 Administration
Server.

						- Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-29  2:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-27  0:36 Rich Morin
2022-01-27  1:55 ` Jan Schaumann via TUHS
2022-01-29  1:59   ` Charles Anthony
2022-01-29  2:24     ` Theodore Y. Ts'o [this message]
2022-01-29  2:36       ` Larry McVoy
2022-01-29  8:48         ` Andy Kosela
2022-01-29 17:15           ` Jon Steinhart
2022-01-29 17:20           ` Seth J. Morabito
2022-02-01  2:12           ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2022-02-01  2:21             ` Steve Nickolas
2022-02-01  2:23             ` Larry McVoy
2022-02-01  2:31               ` Steve Nickolas
2022-02-01  2:51               ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2022-02-01 18:19               ` Clem Cole
2022-02-01 18:24                 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2022-02-01 12:45             ` Blake McBride
2022-01-29 17:20         ` Blake McBride
2022-01-30  1:20         ` Adam Thornton
2022-01-30  2:10           ` Will Senn
2022-01-27  2:07 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2022-01-27  2:40   ` Larry McVoy
2022-01-27 21:11 ` Tomasz Rola
2022-01-27  2:52 Norman Wilson
2022-01-27 23:20 ` Nemo Nusquam

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