16 Jan
2020
16 Jan
'20
9:52 p.m.
Is there a history of TUHS page I've missed?
When was it formed? Was it an outgrowth of PUPS? etc.
Again, I'm working on a talk and would like to include some of this
information and it made me think that the history of the historians should
be documented too.
Warner
16 Jan
16 Jan
11:01 p.m.
On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 01:52:00PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
Is there a history of TUHS page I've missed?
When was it formed? Was it an outgrowth of PUPS? etc.
Again, I'm working on a talk and would like to include some of this
information and it made me think that the history of the historians
should be documented too.
Warner
Heh, I hadn't thought that TUHS itself should now be considered historical,
but I guess 25 years in the IT industry is a long time. A while back I
wrote an answer to this question here:
https://minnie.tuhs.org/Blog/2015_12_14_why_start_tuhs.html
I started the PDP-11 Unix Preservation Society mailing list around
October 1995. Eventually I realised that there needed to be a forum/group
with a wider remit, so I started a separate TUHS list in 2000. Some time
after that, the two lists got merged to be the single TUHS list.
Let me know if you have other questions.
Cheers, Warren
7:51 a.m.
On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 08:48:34PM -0700, Grant Taylor via TUHS wrote:
Is it worth mentioning COFF anywhere in there?
Hmm, I'm not sure. Based on the mailing list archive at
https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/coff/, I set it up in
July 2018 so that us old farts can talk about old computers
when the topic was not strictly Unix-related.
Cheers, Warren
6:46 a.m.
Warren Toomey wrote:
Heh, I hadn't thought that TUHS itself should now
be considered
historical
I often imagine future historians 100 years from now pouring over
mailing list archives and bitrotted GitHub repositories, including those
that contain historical research. Metahistory maybe?
Hello people in the future! How's the singularity treating you?
Sorry about the climate.
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