[HECnet] PyDECnet setup
Dave McGuire
mcguire at neurotica.com
Thu Nov 18 16:33:26 PST 2021
You?! Well, not when you're drunk, anyway. ;)
On 11/18/21 7:17 PM, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> Shit dude, how long have you known me? I'm as pedantic as they come. :)
> On Nov 19, 2021, 00:01 +0000, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com>, wrote:
>
>
> Yup. :) And since when are you a pedant?? I've always been pedantic
> enough for both of us. Perhaps I just know in my heart that Sun made
> a mistake with the naming. ;)
>
> On November 18, 2021 7:00:22 PM Brian Hechinger <wonko at 4amlunch.net>
> wrote:
>
> Nope!
> On Nov 18, 2021, 23:58 +0000, Dave McGuire
> <mcguire at neurotica.com>, wrote:
>
>
> Eventually it does. :)
>
> On November 18, 2021 6:57:34 PM Brian Hechinger
> <wonko at 4amlunch.net> wrote:
>
> Still doesn't make it right. 😜
>
> -brian
> On Nov 18, 2021, 23:44 +0000, Dave McGuire
> <mcguire at neurotica.com>, wrote:
>
>
> It's the standard. =)
>
> -Dave
>
> On November 18, 2021 5:39:55 PM Brian Hechinger
> <wonko at 4amlunch.net> wrote:
>
> Common, accepted and STILL WRONG.
>
> -brian
>
> On 18/11/21 17:56, Dave McGuire wrote:
>
>
> Not quite. Solaris 1.1.2 is SunOS 4.1.4.
> That was an
> after-the-fact rebranding, but still. What
> you state below is the
> common and accepted usage.
>
> -Dave
>
> On 11/18/21 12:53 PM, August Treubig wrote:
>
> SunOS is BSD,
> Solaris is System V.
>
>
> Aug Treubig
>
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Nov 18, 2021, at 11:35 AM, Brian
> Hechinger <wonko at 4amlunch.net>
> wrote:
>
> ?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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> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
> New Kensington, PA
>
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> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
> New Kensington, PA
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> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
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