6 Apr
2021
6 Apr
'21
11:49 a.m.
On Mon, 5 Apr 2021, John Gilmore wrote:
I'm an engineer, not an academic. [...] The
paper was rejected by the
program committee, on the objection that "ports aren't research".
This of course will come as news to those of us who had to port Unix to a
different architecture... Especially when the hardware didn't work as
documented :-(
I think the most egregious example was DEC's Unibus; the specs were vague
enough that 3rd-party cards wouldn't work (timing issues) so DEC could
turn around and say that you ought to use our gear (which of course
observed the undocumented precise timing).
-- Dave