[TUHS] Thanks for Virtuallyfun! (was Re: Happy birthday, 386BSD!)

[Wesley Parish]

I think that's the hallmark of great engineering, period. Mechanical,
civil, electrical ... most probably gravitational if our species ever
gets that far ... :)

Wesley Parish

On 7/15/19, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
>     > From: Adam Thornton
>
>     > something designed for single-threaded composible text-filtering
>     > operations is now running almost all of the world's multithreaded
>     > user-facing graphical applications, but that's the vagaries of
> history
>     > for you.
>
> It's a perfect example of my aphorism, "The hallmark of truly great
> architecture is not how well it does the things it was designed to do, but
> how
> well it does things it was never expected to handle."
>
>        Noel
>