20 Feb
2024
20 Feb
'24
3:45 a.m.
Well done. Has the hardware evolved? I presume so, but I do remember one
legacy machine from the early 1980's at BTL (icarus, an 11/23), that when
it shut down forever in 1996, was a microvax, with its bus connected to a
standard PDP11 bus, that connected to a Q-bus, and the original discs were
still on line. It's uptime was never more than 350+ days, though, because
of once a year UPS testing. In its last incarnation, it did nothing but
mail routing, and that barely. I don't think anything changed on it in the
last 10 years, not even the system.
On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 1:15 PM Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 4:02 PM Warner Losh <imp(a)bsdimp.com> wrote:
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James D. (jj) Johnston
Chief Scientist, Immersion Networks
On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 1:58 PM Rich Salz <rich.salz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
+1
My observation is that Linux is just the current (and most
successful) implementation of ideas that Doug, Ken, Rudd, Dennis, *et al.*
started and others have contributed to over the years. And like the
thought experiment described, there is no reason why the ship can not be
changed. It still sails the same way to the same places.
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I think this makes minnie one of the longest
running web services
*We all sail in the Unix ship of Theseus..*. Every system today had code
from Unix directly, or from another ship that was built of the builts of
one that was split between a couple of groups. Yes, even Linux: lots of
networking userland came from BSD, for example, and while lots have been
rewritten, that's kinda the point of the ship of Theseus... :)
still in existence :-)
Congrats. In a ship of Theseus sense.:)