[TUHS] Origins and life of the pg pager

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Sun Jul 5 11:34:22 AEST 2020


On Wed, 24 Jun 2020, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:

> P.S.  Of course, the fact that the The Open Group tried to convince the 
> world to stop using tar and cpio in favor to pax seems to be a strong 
> indication that they forgot the lesson of King Canute.  :-)

Minor nit: King Canute never tried to hold back the waves.  His subjects 
were convinced that he could, so he demonstrated otherwise.

-- Dave


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