[TUHS] FD 2

[arnold at skeeve.com]

I stand corrected. Thanks.

Arnold

Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy at dartmouth.edu> wrote:

> >> And I believe that the impetus for the V7 changes was phototypesetting
> >> 'file not found' too often...  But that last bit is mostly because I want
> >> to believe.
>
> > Doug McIlroy has told that story here, search the archives.
> > It was indeed becase of the phototypesetter.
>
> If I ever said that I must have been smoking something at the time.
> The phototypesetter is a dramatic example, but a minor cause.
> The major cause was pipes. Downstream programs fail
> when they receive diagnostics rather than data. And users
> never see the reason why.
>
> Doug
>
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 3:34 AM James Johnston <audioskeptic at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > At one point it was like $22/page.
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 11:30 PM <arnold at skeeve.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > And I believe that the impetus for the V7 changes was phototypesetting
> >> > 'file not found' too often...  But that last bit is mostly because I want
> >> > to believe.
> >>
> >> Doug McIlroy has told that story here, search the archives.
> >> It was indeed becase of the phototypesetter.
> >>
> >> Arnold
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > James D. (jj) Johnston
> >
> > Chief Scientist, Immersion Networks