On 01/28/2015 06:46 AM, Daniel Cegiełka wrote: > 2015-01-28 4:51 GMT+01:00 Rob Landley <[email protected]>: >> >> (Did I mention computer history is a hobby of mine?) >> >>> Rich >> >> Rob >> > > Rob, you're famous :) > > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8958591
Why do these things always go viral when it's off the top of my head at 3am and I didn't check my references? (I'm reminded of when hacker monthly asked to reprint https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3519952 and I went "let me correct the model numbers and sizes and add footnotes citing the original sources", resulting in http://www.landley.net/writing/hackermonthly-issue022-pg33.pdf ...) I've already received email from Larry McVoy pointing out I got the Solaris dates a few years early. (So Ed Zander's unbundling campaign was based on SunOS? Alas that's something I _haven't_ found decent primary references for, although Eric Raymond, Peter Salus, at at least one other person have described it to me from personal experience, and I took notes but they're packed too...) (I hate it when I google for a reference and the first few hits are _me_, ala https://lwn.net/Articles/227367/. That's not useful.) Aha! The Demon, the Gnu, and the Penguin. Chapter 10 of the original online version, anyway, mentions this: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050525231654621 (I talked to that book's author about it in the green room at the last Atlanta Linux Showcase (the one in California) in 2001, but it's nice he wrote it down somewhere I can cite it. Peter used to be the executive directory of the Sun User Group, as well as running Usenix and being a vice president at the FSF back in the 1980's, _and_ he's the author of A Quarter Century of Unix. So he's an excellent source, although I confirmed it with a few other people. (Darn it, I should have asked Doug McIllroy about this at that dinner at Ohio LinuxFest for the 40th anniversary of unix...) Now if Peter had just given _dates_ and cited some Sun marketing materials about it or something. Maybe that's in the print version. (Packed! In a box! There was a flood back in like August! We hired people to drill holes in our walls, on purpose!) Anyway, I've got to get back to adding icache flushing support in this sh2 kernel port... > Daniel Rob _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
