[HECnet] PyDECnet setup

Brian Hechinger wonko at 4amlunch.net
Thu Nov 18 09:25:37 PST 2021


On 18/11/21 17:20, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On 11/18/21 12:12 PM, Thomas DeBellis wrote:
>> They do it _today_.
>
>   Well, since the last release of SunOS (not Solaris) was in 1994, and 
> the last release of Ultrix was in 1995..


It's still SunOS. Solaris is a different thing. Thanks marketing twats!


>
>> I think you can get burnt whether it's a bunch of academics eternally 
>> discussing purity in committees or a couple of kids just picking 
>> something.
>
>   Very true.  The only way to truly protect yourself is to have the 
> source code and revert any poor decisions that they make.  Oh, wait, 
> we can do that!


So I've fallen into watching old Bryan Cantrill interviews. His rants on 
this are FANTASTIC.


-brian



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