9 Oct
2019
9 Oct
'19
8:13 p.m.
All, we just had about a dozen new subscribers to the TUHS list. Rather than
e-mail you all individually, I thought I'd use the list itself to say
"Welcome!".
The TUHS list generally has a high signal/noise ratio on the history of
Unix, the systems and software, and anecdotes from those who used the
various flavours. Occasionally, we drift a bit off-topic and I'll gently
nudge the conversation back to Unix history.
The list archives are at: https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/
and you should browse the last couple of months to get a feel for
what we talk about.
Cheers, Warren
9 Oct
9 Oct
8:50 p.m.
On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 06:13:21AM +1000, Warren Toomey wrote:
All, we just had about a dozen new subscribers to the
TUHS list. Rather than
e-mail you all individually, I thought I'd use the list itself to say
"Welcome!".
Aloha!
SunOS/Solaris 1992-1995 (user)
AIX - a very short period inside Solaris period (user)
Linux 1994-... (finally, a small time admin)
OpenBSD ... (if I migrate there) - ...
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11:51 p.m.
On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 06:13:21AM +1000, Warren Toomey wrote:
The TUHS list generally has a high signal/noise ratio
on the history of
Unix, the systems and software, and anecdotes from those who used the
various flavours. Occasionally, we drift a bit off-topic and I'll gently
nudge the conversation back to Unix history.
Heh, I just realised that I'm the UNIX of mail list administrators. I say
nothing when you do the usual things, but give you a cryptic warning when
you do something not quite right :)
Ciao, Warren
10 Oct
10 Oct
12:03 a.m.
On Thu, 10 Oct 2019, Warren Toomey wrote:
Heh, I just realised that I'm the UNIX of mail
list administrators. I
say nothing when you do the usual things, but give you a cryptic warning
when you do something not quite right :)
Was it "ed" that only gave two error messages? Something like "tmp"
for
/tmp being full, and "?" for "error - you get to figure it out"?
And there was the car (ObUS: auto) that only had a single warning light:
"The user is supposed to know what it means."
-- Dave
12:22 a.m.
On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 8:03 PM Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
And there was the car (ObUS: auto) that only had a
single warning light:
"The user is supposed to know what it means."
-- Dave
"Ken Thompson has an automobile which he helped design. Unlike most
automobiles, it has neither speedometer, nor gas gauge, nor any of the
other numerous idiot lights which plague the modern driver. Rather, if the
driver makes a mistake, a giant “?” lights up in the center of the
dashboard. “The experienced driver,” says Thompson, “will usually know
what’s wrong.”"
(https://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/new90/366.html)
9 Oct
9 Oct
11:58 p.m.
On Thursday, 10 October 2019 at 6:13:21 +1000, Warren Toomey wrote:
All, we just had about a dozen new subscribers to the
TUHS
list. Rather than e-mail you all individually, I thought I'd use the
list itself to say "Welcome!".
"Welcome!".
The TUHS list generally has a high signal/noise ratio
on the history of
Unix, the systems and software, and anecdotes from those who used the
various flavours. Occasionally, we drift a bit off-topic and I'll gently
nudge the conversation back to Unix history.
You might like to point at the COFF list (coff(a)tuhs.org) for
(slightly) off-topic posts.
Greg
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10 Oct
10 Oct
9:21 a.m.
On 09/10/2019 21:13, Warren Toomey wrote:
All, we just had about a dozen new subscribers to the
TUHS list. Rather than
e-mail you all individually, I thought I'd use the list itself to say
"Welcome!".
[...]
Hi, Warren.
I'm one of your recent TUHS list subscribers - I first encountered AT&T
Version 7 Unix on a PDP11/34 and I've used all sorts of *nix since then.
One thing I noticed on this list is people's interest in the use of
UPPER/lower case in Unix. It's always puzzled me when everyone talks
about [the] PDP11 when, in fact, is says "pdp11" on the system itself:
DEC seemed to have a schizophrenic attitude to this in their
documentation, sometimes using "PDP11" and sometimes "pdp11".
Not sure if anyone else had a similar experience to me when visiting the
"Computer History Museum" in Palo Alto and being totally shocked to see
machines I used 'quite recently' there as museum exhibits!
I also made a complaint to the Museum, because the original Donald
Becker Beowulf was hidden away in a corner behind a Cray machine :-(
Nevertheless, a fantastic museum and I highly recommend a visit!
Bye,
Tony.
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11 Oct
11 Oct
1:19 p.m.
New subject: BSD Password cracked (fun)
A bit of fun. In appeareance, 39 years later, Ken Thompson's password on
BSD Unix has been cracked... Congratulations for the password, by the way.
https://thehackernews.com/2019/10/unix-bsd-password-cracked.html
Cordiales saludos / Kind Regards.
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10 Oct
10 Oct
3:27 p.m.
On 10/9/19, 4:13 PM, "TUHS on behalf of Warren Toomey"
<tuhs-bounces(a)minnie.tuhs.org on behalf of wkt(a)tuhs.org> wrote:
All, we just had about a dozen new subscribers to the
TUHS list. Rather than
e-mail you all individually, I thought I'd use the list itself to say
"Welcome!".
Hello, Everyone!
My first interaction with a UNIX system was with a Dec Alpha in my C programming class ~
1993. In 1994 I installed Slackware on my 486.
I've worked with HP-UX, SCO, BSD, *inux*, Solaris, IRIX, AIX since then. I have a
Sun Ultra 1500, Sun Ultra 5 and an SGI Indy R5000 all running at home
In my office.
Thank you!,
Larry Cashdollar.
Yes, that's my real name. __
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