3 Feb
2023
3 Feb
'23
10:39 p.m.
On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 9:16 AM Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
On Fri, Feb 03, 2023 at 09:11:35AM -0500, Chet Ramey
wrote:
Some folks have given good suggestions, which I appreciate, but
perhaps it would help to explain exactly what I'm looking for.
I think that new system designs remain important, but without a
historical perspective, they run the risk of repeating old mistakes,
ignoring prior art, etc. Something I appreciate about TUHS is how one
has access to so many of the key players in Unix as well as other
systems: the perspective those people bring to the discussion is
illuminating.
But TUHS is clearly meant to be a Unix history list, not a "list about
new systems where we can ask about history because that helps us build
those new systems". In that sense, I'm not looking for COFF or a retro
or classic computer list, either, but for something explicitly modern
yet informed by history.
I don't believe such a thing actually exists.
- Dan C.
On 2/2/23 8:44 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
A new list, if it serves its purpose of providing interesting content, will
eventually undergo the same thing. It's always going end up being some
variant of Yogi Berra's famous "nobody goes there anymore, it's too
crowded."
In my opinion, Warren has been threading the needle nicely. He lets stuff
go into the weeds a bit but has a pretty good sense of when it is annoying
people that we all want to keep around. He's very understated about it
all but he keeps this list pretty sane.
If you haven't joined COFF, maybe consider it, if that got big enough
then the other stuff could be done over there. So, the
question becomes: what _is_ that forum, if such a thing exists
at all?
A new list? Social media is for the birds; Usenet is dead, film at 11.