[TUHS] Maintenance mode on AIX

steve jenkin sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au
Thu Jan 19 13:56:47 AEST 2023


To their credit, ACM have make the video available on Youtube

	<https://youtu.be/dsMKJKTOte0?t=551>

Link includes intro to Ken for those wanting brevity.

> On 19 Jan 2023, at 07:04, Joseph J. Mankoski ***PSI*** <psi at valis.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello --
> 
>        Regarding "appliance-ization" (locking down / dumbing down) of commercially-available computer systems, and returning to the history of Unix (in the context of our current era), I am reminded of Ken Thompson's (excellent and humorous) panel presentation at the ACM Turing 100 conference I attended in 2012, imagining Alan Turing being brought to our time and given a current-generation computer system, etc.
> 
>        The webcast links for the "Systems Architecture" session, etc., on the main conference site, https://turing100.acm.org/, seem to be broken, however the video at this link works for me:
> 
>        https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2322176.2322182
> 
>        (Ken's part starts at ~0:09:28.)
> 
>        Cheers,
>                                ***PSI***
>                                <<<psi at valis.com>>>

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