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From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] cat -v and other complaints
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 08:34:05 +1000 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1808300825340.41601@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2ODDO+OTUf8wA4bXu9M5M0kswJqT97qRAnV9EOzMGKRvQ@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, 29 Aug 2018, Clem Cole wrote:

[ Excellent screed elided ]

> That said, I give the Linux folks great credit for the addition of 
> modules was huge and it took BSD and the other UNIX systems a few years 
> really pick up that idea in the same way (yes Solaris, Tru64 and 
> eventually HPUX etc.. had something too but again - my comment about 
> being generally available applies).

Wasn't SunOS first with dynamic kernel modules, or is my memory worse than 
I thought?  Linux may have been around at the time, but we never used in 
the shop until much later (Red Hat, nicknamed Dead Rat).

> So here is the issue, how to do move the ball forward?   BSD, then 
> Linux, became the 'stronger strain' and pushed out the old version.  
>  The problem is the ROMs in my fingers (like Dave) never got 
> reprogrammed so some of the 'new' becomes annoying.   Will I learned to 
> like systemd?   We shall see...

Never mind "systemd"; I'm having enough trouble coming to grips with 
"launchd" on the Mac...  Gimme /etc/inetd.conf any time.

-- Dave

  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-29 22:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-29 14:25 Clem Cole
2018-08-29 22:34 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2018-08-29 23:36   ` Larry McVoy
2018-08-30  1:14     ` Clem cole
2018-08-30  1:15       ` Clem cole
2018-08-30  2:43       ` Kevin Bowling
2018-08-30  2:59         ` George Michaelson
2018-08-31  0:27         ` Dave Horsfall
2018-08-31  0:41           ` Dan Cross
2018-08-31  1:58             ` Larry McVoy
2018-08-31 11:38           ` ron
2018-08-31 14:41           ` [TUHS] UNIX System names - since UNIX was a Trademark Clem Cole
2018-08-31 15:13             ` Eric Wayte
2018-08-31 15:17             ` William Pechter
2018-08-31 15:25               ` Clem Cole
2018-09-01  0:10               ` John P. Linderman
2018-09-01  0:18                 ` ron
2018-09-01  0:55                   ` Nemo
2018-09-01  7:37                     ` Dave Horsfall
2018-09-01 13:54                       ` Nemo
2018-09-01 17:03                       ` Paul Winalski
2018-09-03  1:14                         ` Robert Brockway
2018-09-30 20:57                 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-10-01 16:26                   ` Paul Winalski
2018-09-01  0:00             ` Dave Horsfall
2018-08-31 21:56 ` [TUHS] cat -v and other complaints Cág
2018-09-01  3:37   ` Andrew Warkentin
2018-09-03 18:04     ` Cág
2018-09-03 18:11       ` Kurt H Maier
2018-09-03 18:56         ` Cág
2018-09-04  6:10           ` Andy Kosela
2018-09-04  6:41             ` ron minnich
2018-09-04  9:34               ` Andy Kosela
2018-09-04 10:23                 ` Dan Cross
2018-09-04 14:22                 ` ron minnich
2018-09-06 20:02                   ` Andy Kosela
2018-09-06 20:49                     ` ron minnich
2018-09-06 21:55                       ` Andy Kosela
2018-09-07  1:59                         ` Dan Cross
2018-09-07  4:40                           ` Andy Kosela
2018-09-30 21:32           ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-09-03 20:08         ` Bakul Shah
2018-09-03 20:41           ` Kurt H Maier
2018-09-03 21:46             ` Bakul Shah
2018-09-04  0:52               ` Kurt H Maier
2018-09-06 20:29 Norman Wilson
2018-09-06 22:16 ` Andy Kosela
2018-09-08 12:02 [TUHS] [TUHS} " Doug McIlroy
2018-09-08 13:36 ` Will Senn
2018-09-08 14:22   ` [TUHS] " Ralph Corderoy
2018-09-08 16:10     ` Arthur Krewat

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