From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 13778 invoked from network); 26 Jan 2021 02:54:05 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 26 Jan 2021 02:54:05 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 076829C7A5; Tue, 26 Jan 2021 12:54:03 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2EFB9C65D; Tue, 26 Jan 2021 12:53:49 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 14A3D9C641; Tue, 26 Jan 2021 12:53:47 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minun.buric.co (minun.buric.co [51.15.8.196]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD3DE9C5FD for ; Tue, 26 Jan 2021 12:53:45 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minun.buric.co (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A43BF35C0C95; Tue, 26 Jan 2021 03:53:44 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minun.buric.co (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9680435C0A8B; Mon, 25 Jan 2021 21:53:44 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2021 21:53:44 -0500 (EST) From: Steve Nickolas X-X-Sender: mary@sd-119843.dedibox.fr To: M Douglas McIlroy In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.21 (DEB 202 2017-01-01) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: Re: [TUHS] Favorite unix design principles? X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" On Mon, 25 Jan 2021, M Douglas McIlroy wrote: > It might be interesting to compare your final list with the two lists in > the 1978 special issue of the BSTJ--one in the Foreword, the other in the > revised version of the Ritchi/Thompson article from the CACM. How have > perceptions or values changed over time? > > Doug Funny thing is I came into *x (Solaris, and then Linux) relatively late - ca. 1997, after I had been using MS-DOS and ProDOS for years, which were the operating systems I compared it to. It was because MS-DOS had adopted ideas from Xenix that *x was easier to acclimate to than other OSes I'd used. -uso.