3 Feb
2023
3 Feb
'23
11:26 p.m.
We're in COFF territory again. I am enjoying the conversation, but let's
self monitor. Perhaps, a workflow for this is that when we drift off
into non-unix history discussion, we cc: COFF and tell folks to continue
there? As a test I cced it on this email, don't reply all to this list.
Just let's talk about it over in coff. If you aren't on coff join it.
If you aren't sure or think most folks on the list want to discuss it.
Post it on COFF, if you don't get any traction, reference the COFF
thread and tease it in TUHS.
This isn't at all a gripe - I heart all of our discussions, but I agree
that it's hard to keep it history related here with no outlet for
tangential discussion - so, let's put coff to good use and try it for
those related, but not quite discussions.
Remember, don't reply to TUHS on this email :)!
- will
On 2/3/23 11:11 AM, Steve Nickolas wrote:
On Fri, 3 Feb 2023, Larry McVoy wrote:
Some things will never go away, like keep your
fingers off of my L1
cache lines. I think it's mostly lost because of huge memories, but
one of the things I love about early Unix is how small everything was.
Most people don't care, but if you want to go really fast, there is no
replacement for small.
Personally, I'm fine with some amount of "list about new systems where
we can ask about history because that helps us build those new systems".
Might be just me, I love systems discussions.
I find a lot of my own stuff is like this - kindasorta fits and
kindasorta doesn't for similar reasons.
(Since a lot of what I've been doing lately is creating a
SysV-flavored rewrite of Unix from my own perspective as a
40-something who actually got most of my experience coding for 16-bits
and MS-DOS, and speaks fluent but non-native C. I'm sure it comes out
in my coding style.)
-uso.