From: Kurtis Rader <krader@skepticism.us>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: surprise with echo
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 22:08:00 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABx2=D-4qvg1WixMPcNtotRCaz8f-c5ubMO8wCEW_tuKuyoDLw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <141218215728.ZM28835@torch.brasslantern.com>
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On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 9:57 PM, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
wrote:
>
>
> } As a grey-beard (I fell in love with UNIX in the 1980's when the
> } C-shell was bleeding edge) I'm familiar with all the major variants of
> } shells and kernels.
>
> We ought to have a secret handshake or something by this point. I led
> the team that ported Z-Mail to 29 different UNIX variants and three
> windowing systems, back in the 90's, after spending my grad school
> years in the 80s parallelizing applications for the Sequent machine
> and playing with Smalltalk on a Tektronix 4315 running UTek. Did you
> ever get to program Occam in the folding editor, for Transputer apps?
> (Good lord it's been a long time since I uttered any of those words.)
I think we already have a semi-secret handshake. I joined Sequent Computer
Systems around 1991 as a support technician. Because I was the only
software engineer on that team I wrote a lot of their support tools. Which
included supporting (but mostly arguing against) using Smalltalk as the
basis for a expert system to support our customers. Those were the days, as
you allude to, when things like a X Window system terminal (i.e., client)
was bleeding edge. I've never written a line of code in Occam but remember
reading about it and debating its merits.
--
Kurtis Rader
Caretaker of the exceptional canines Junior and Hank
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-19 6:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-19 1:24 Ray Andrews
2014-12-19 3:06 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-12-19 3:20 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2014-12-19 6:09 ` Ray Andrews
2014-12-19 6:30 ` Kurtis Rader
2014-12-19 17:54 ` Ray Andrews
2014-12-19 4:14 ` Kurtis Rader
2014-12-19 4:39 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2014-12-19 5:19 ` Kurtis Rader
2014-12-19 6:00 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2014-12-19 5:57 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-12-19 6:08 ` Kurtis Rader [this message]
2014-12-19 6:58 ` Ray Andrews
2014-12-20 2:55 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-12-20 3:05 ` Kurtis Rader
2014-12-20 3:49 ` Ray Andrews
2014-12-20 4:40 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-12-20 5:50 ` Ray Andrews
2014-12-19 6:45 ` Ray Andrews
2014-12-19 11:21 ` Oliver Kiddle
2014-12-20 2:09 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-12-20 2:58 ` Kurtis Rader
2014-12-20 3:55 ` Ray Andrews
2014-12-20 5:08 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2014-12-20 5:37 ` Ray Andrews
2014-12-20 9:45 ` ZyX
2014-12-19 6:00 ` Ray Andrews
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