21 Dec
2016
21 Dec
'16
3:03 p.m.
All, I've just got back from a few days away to find 14 new subscription
requests to the TUHS mailing list. Welcome aboard to you all.
Normally I only get one request a month, so I have some concerns about
the legitimacy of all these requests, so accept my apologies in advance
if there is any off-topic e-mails in the next few days.
P.S The mail while I was away was very interesting. Noel, you might
also be interested in the B interpreter and Robert Swierczick's B
compiler the PDP-7 Unix. The original B compiler doesn't exist, so
Robert took the 11/20 C compiler and "undid" the code that does types
so that it "became" a B compiler.
https://github.com/DoctorWkt/pdp7-unix/tree/master/src/other
Cheers all
Warren
21 Dec
21 Dec
5:15 p.m.
I occasionally tweet pointers to archived messages when I see a gem in
our list that merits wider dissemination. I did so this week: "The
reasons AT&T's CEO and legal started using Unix are not the ones you'd
expect. http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2016-December/007519.html"
https://twitter.com/CoolSWEng/status/810498608718036992
If you'd prefer to keep this list less public I can avoid such posts.
Diomidis
On 21/12/2016 11:03, Warren Toomey wrote:
All, I've just got back from a few days away to
find 14 new subscription
requests to the TUHS mailing list. Welcome aboard to you all.
Normally I only get one request a month, so I have some concerns about
the legitimacy of all these requests, so accept my apologies in advance
if there is any off-topic e-mails in the next few days.
P.S The mail while I was away was very interesting. Noel, you might
also be interested in the B interpreter and Robert Swierczick's B
compiler the PDP-7 Unix. The original B compiler doesn't exist, so
Robert took the 11/20 C compiler and "undid" the code that does types
so that it "became" a B compiler.
https://github.com/DoctorWkt/pdp7-unix/tree/master/src/other
Cheers all
Warren
7:16 p.m.
On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 2:33 PM, Warren Toomey <wkt(a)tuhs.org> wrote:
All, I've just got back from a few days away to
find 14 new subscription
requests to the TUHS mailing list. Welcome aboard to you all.
Normally I only get one request a month
May be it's because "How Unix made it to the top"[0] made it to the
front page of Hacker News[1], a forum frequented by geeks.
[0] http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2016-December/007519.html
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13204054
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https://rootkea.wordpress.com
8:41 p.m.
Hello,
I'm researching Computer history, especially Unix. I noticed the
mentioned article reading a mail from this great list.
On Wed, Dec 21, 2016, at 05:16 AM, Avinash Sonawane wrote:
On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 2:33 PM, Warren Toomey
<wkt(a)tuhs.org> wrote:
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All, I've just got back from a few days away
to find 14 new subscription
requests to the TUHS mailing list. Welcome aboard to you all.
Normally I only get one request a month
May be it's because "How Unix made it to the top"[0] made it to the
front page of Hacker News[1], a forum frequented by geeks.
[0] http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2016-December/007519.html
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13204054
--
Avinash Sonawane (rootKea)
PICT, Pune
https://rootkea.wordpress.com 
9:04 p.m.
I too got there from Hacker News.
I like to read stories from the Unix Lore, and discover the history of the
tools that are everywhere in my computing environment at home and at work.
I fear I'll have nothing to contribute, as I'm younger than System V, but
I'll read the list with interest :)
On Wed, 21 Dec 2016 at 15:41 Kay Parker <kayparker(a)mailite.com> wrote:
Hello,
I'm researching Computer history, especially Unix. I noticed the
mentioned article reading a mail from this great list.
On Wed, Dec 21, 2016, at 05:16 AM, Avinash Sonawane wrote:
--
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On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 2:33 PM, Warren Toomey
<wkt(a)tuhs.org> wrote:
> All, I've just got back from a few days away to find 14 new
subscription
requests
to the TUHS mailing list. Welcome aboard to you all.
Normally I only get one request a month
May be it's because "How Unix made it to the top"[0] made it to the
front page of Hacker News[1], a forum frequented by geeks.
[0] http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2016-December/007519.html
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13204054
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Avinash Sonawane (rootKea)
PICT, Pune
https://rootkea.wordpress.com 
9:31 p.m.
You newcomers are in for a treat. A bunch of the original Unix people
are here. All sorts of gems get teased out.
I get that too "young" feeling, I was just a little too young to make
it to Bell Labs. Not sure they would have let me in but if I had
been younger I would have fought hard to get in, those guys were my
inspiration.
On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 03:04:09PM +0000, Edouard KLEIN wrote:
I too got there from Hacker News.
I like to read stories from the Unix Lore, and discover the history of the
tools that are everywhere in my computing environment at home and at work.
I fear I'll have nothing to contribute, as I'm younger than System V, but
I'll read the list with interest :)
On Wed, 21 Dec 2016 at 15:41 Kay Parker <kayparker(a)mailite.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm researching Computer history, especially Unix. I noticed the
> mentioned article reading a mail from this great list.
>
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2016, at 05:16 AM, Avinash Sonawane wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 2:33 PM, Warren Toomey <wkt(a)tuhs.org> wrote:
> > > All, I've just got back from a few days away to find 14 new
> subscription
> > > requests to the TUHS mailing list. Welcome aboard to you all.
> > >
> > > Normally I only get one request a month
> >
> > May be it's because "How Unix made it to the top"[0] made it to
the
> > front page of Hacker News[1], a forum frequented by geeks.
> >
> > [0] http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2016-December/007519.html
> > [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13204054
> >
> > --
> > Avinash Sonawane (rootKea)
> > PICT, Pune
> > https://rootkea.wordpress.com
>
>
> --
> Kay Parker
> kayparker(a)mailite.com
>
> --
> http://www.fastmail.com - The professional email service
>
>
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Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm
22 Dec
22 Dec
6:12 a.m.
Well, don't feel yourself put out by your relative youth. I discovered Unix about the
time I (seriously)
discovered computers in 1990. I'd read up what little info I could get on computers
while I was at High
School in Canberra - they actually had (general theory) books on computers, but then,
Canberra hosts
an observatory and a couple of high-quality universities, so it stands to reason ...
I read (in Bits and Bytes, an NZ computer mag) about Minix and Coherent, and their
multitasking and
whatnot, and thought, now I've got started in computers, let's get
serious.(I'd got started on Macintosh
then tried my hand at MS DOS)
Unix is to computer geeks as Bach (or Coltrane) is to music geeks. Discussion and
arguments aplenty,
but nobody's denying the importance.
Welcome aboard.
Wesley Parish
Quoting Edouard KLEIN <edouardklein(a)gmail.com>:
I too got there from Hacker News.
I like to read stories from the Unix Lore, and discover the history of
the
tools that are everywhere in my computing environment at home and at
work.
I fear I'll have nothing to contribute, as I'm younger than System V,
but
I'll read the list with interest :)
On Wed, 21 Dec 2016 at 15:41 Kay Parker <kayparker(a)mailite.com> wrote:
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Goldwyn
Hello,
I'm researching Computer history, especially Unix. I noticed the
mentioned article reading a mail from this great list.
On Wed, Dec 21, 2016, at 05:16 AM, Avinash Sonawane wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 2:33 PM, Warren Toomey <wkt(a)tuhs.org>
wrote:
> All,
I've just got back from a few days away to find 14 new
subscription
requests
to the TUHS mailing list. Welcome aboard to you all.
Normally I only get one request a month
May be it's because "How Unix made it to the top"[0] made it to the
front page of Hacker News[1], a forum frequented by geeks.
[0] http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2016-December/007519.html
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13204054
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Avinash Sonawane (rootKea)
PICT, Pune
https://rootkea.wordpress.com
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