Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2022 18:56:23
From: Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com>
To: Bakul Shah <bakul(a)iitbombay.org>
Cc: Grant Taylor <gtaylor(a)tnetconsulting.net>, tuhs(a)tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: The MGR window system and the Macintosh
On Thu, Aug 04, 2022 at 04:21:28PM -0700, Bakul Shah wrote:
On Aug 4, 2022, at 4:07 PM, Grant Taylor via TUHS
<tuhs(a)tuhs.org> wrote:
On 8/4/22 2:29 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
i think I may need to push this to bitsavers. the
c.s.unix archive was a little more difficult to find than I thought.
Is that your site? Or someone else's. The URL tends to indicate the latter.
I believe that is Andy Valencia's site. He is the author of VSTa microkernel.
I ask because I'd be happy to mirror it on
my site.
I think Usenet bits are archived on
archive.org. For instance:
https://archive.org/details/cdrom-usernet-sources-newsgroups-1994-10-1
You can also find them on googlegroups but don't know what damage they may
have done.
Oh, the damage that Google has done to netnews is immense. Remember
dejanews? With their spiffy search interface that would let you look for
stuff in date ranges? Yeah, google bought dejanews, killed the search
(because theirs was "better", it most definitely is not), and then did
google groups which is complete garbage.
My current boss was a news admin at Dejanews and was there during
their end days. I was the sysadmin for the datacenter (SMARTNAP) that
DejaNews was co-lo'd in. Everyone wanted to peer with my news server
since it fed directly into Dejanews' stuff which was a couple of racks
down from my stuff.
Google bought Deja and ruined it.
IXC Communications bought SMARTNAP and ruined it.
--
Michael Parson
Pflugerville, TX