Re: [TUHS] off-topic list

On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 10:29 AM Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote: With the caveat that I must acknowledge that I've been guilty of wandering off topic more often than I should, it occurs to me that when discussing the history of something, very often the histories of other things necessarily feed into that history and become intertwined and inseparable. There was a lot of "stuff" happening in the computer industry at the time Unix was created, in it's early years, and on in its (continuing) evolution, and that "stuff" surely impacted Unix in one way or another. If we really want to understand where Unix came from and why it is, we must open ourselves to understanding those influences as well. That said, of course, there's a balance. Having a place one could point to and respectfully say, "Hey, this has gone on for 50+ messages; could you move it over to off-tuhs?" might be useful for folks who want to deep-dive on something. We wandered into Linux/ext2 with Ted, that was fun. Indeed. I'll go further and confess that I use TUHS as a learning resource that influences by work professionally. There's a lot of good information that comes across this list that gets filed away in my brain and manifests itself in surprising ways by informing my work. I selfishly want that to continue. - Dan C.