[TUHS] owner maintenance (Re: The era of general purpose computing (Re: AIX moved into maintainance mode

[Charles H Sauer (he/him)]

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suited me well until it didn't. Charlie

On 1/19/2023 5:51 PM, segaloco via TUHS wrote:
> To be fair I didn't necessarily just have UNIX in mind with that 
> statement, I also mean whats happening to appliances, vehicles, etc. 
> It's part of a bigger problem, we're just of course mostly discussing 
> the implications of that problem vis-a-vis UNIX. Believe me, I also wish 
> I could peer under the hood of a modern car and tell you how to actually 
> replace something in there with just a socket and a set of pliers...
> 
> - Matt G.
> 
> ------- Original Message -------
> On Thursday, January 19th, 2023 at 3:44 PM, Rich Salz 
> <rich.salz at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>>     In my mind there would probably be a strong correlation between
>>     engineers making products unnecessarily complicated (whether they
>>     want to or not) and end users deciding en masse not to sink the
>>     time into learning how to maintain increasingly convoluted and
>>     esoteric designs.
>>
>>
>> To me, the biggest surprise about Unix history is that the Bell patent 
>> office secretaries were able to use ed and [nt]roff. I cannot imagine 
>> the general populace doing that.
>>
>> Folks on this list will be fine, there will always be programming 
>> environments for us. For the rest of the world, simpler is better and 
>> simpler isn't Unix.
> 

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