[HECnet] PyDECnet setup

[Dave McGuire]

   While I like "no undies" as much as the next guy, those guys are idiots.

           -Dave

On 11/18/21 12:27 PM, Keith Halewood wrote:
> I’ve encountered Linux ‘experts’ in the past who have, without even 
> trying, convinced me that they’ve never seen a shell command line. All 
> UI and no undies, so to speak.
> 
> *From:*owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] *On 
> Behalf Of *Thomas DeBellis
> *Sent:* 18 November 2021 17:21
> *To:* hecnet at Update.UU.SE
> *Subject:* Re: [HECnet] PyDECnet setup
> 
> You know, I like "primordial Unix" more than "early Unix".  Of course, 
> that then leaves the question of what to call the early PDP-11 
> releases.  Upper Devonian?
> 
> I followed the resurrection of PDP-7 based Unix at the computer museum 
> and, for some strange reason, found the assembler based stuff of more 
> interest than the latest Ubuntu glitz.
> 
> Glitz really leaves me cold if not annoyed.
> 
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>     On 11/18/21 12:10 PM, Dan Cross wrote:
> 
>     That would be quite early indeed. :-) PDP-7 Unix was fairly short lived (a year or two?) and was left behind for a long time once they got the first PDP-11 system at BTL.  I would humbly submit that that might be more properly referred to as,
> 
>     "primordial Unix".
> 
>              - Dan C.
> 
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>         On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 11:57 AM Thomas DeBellis<tommytimesharing at gmail.com>  <mailto:tommytimesharing at gmail.com>  wrote:
> 
>         [snip]
> 
>         'Early' Unix to me means before it got ported off the PDP-7. [snip]
> 


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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
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