[TUHS] Chaosnet for 4.1BSD

Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com
Sun Nov 18 02:41:41 AEST 2018


On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 03:40:53PM +0000, Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
> Why oh why is there such a high correlation between archaic obsolete
> systems and sheer hacking joy?  

I'm not doing that hacking, too old and burnt out, but for those who
still have some juice left my guess is it is fun because the older
systems were pretty simple.  A kernel and a few well known device
drivers is not a lot of code (the millions of lines of Linux kernel
code is almost all drivers).



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