2 Feb
2023
2 Feb
'23
11:47 p.m.
I love the topics and people on TUHS.
But I also subscribed to COFF so I could pick up on interesting scraps not suitable for
TUHS.
On Feb 2, 2023, at 5:41 PM, Larry McVoy
<lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
On Thu, Feb 02, 2023 at 05:36:44PM -0500, Dan Cross wrote:
COFF lacks critical mass. It's a common problem, you have a mailing list
with enough people that it is interesting and it gets too noisy so the
admin creates a more chatty list and only a small subset of the people
pick that up. I don't know how to fix that.
On Thu,
Feb 2, 2023 at 2:02 PM Noel Chiappa <jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
[snip] I don't
have the energy to look through the tons of opinion posts about recent
programming styles, to find the posts about actual Unix history which related
to that compiler,
[snip]
On a semi-related note....
I have found TUHS a valuable resource, not just for discussing Unix
history, but for gaining a deeper understanding of systems which
informs my present and that I imagine will influence my future work as
well.
However, lately it has become clear that this is not always a welcome
use of the list. I don't think COFF is universally appropriate for
that either. So, the question becomes: what _is_ that forum,
if such a thing exists at all?
Well, Hacker News was supposed to be really system-y. I tried it for a while,
there was some good stuff there but it was drowned out by wannabe hackers
talking about trivial stuff as if it were interesting. So I gave up.
If you find a Unix/Systems sort of forum, that actually has something to
say, let us know.
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