UNIX V7

Kirn Gill wrote: Topicality lecture time again, esp. for the newby: There are now several threads under the same subject heading. One or two of those threads might have something to do with 'classic computing'. While I might be accused of contributing to off-topic threads myself in the past few days (cloud C & lightning) the difference there is the thread was a couple of messages, had a fast decline in traffic, and was somewhat unique. All this stuff about preferences for and the (current) state of OS X, Haiku, Linux, Debian, Windows, et al has no business being here. It's a common (as in mundane) debate which is not about to be resolved here and has no foreseeable resolution, i.e. it's just going to generate an ongoing stream of off-topic messages. There are many other places on the net to debate such issues if that is really what you are interested in. Quit it, here. And reading in between all that PGP crap in every message is quite annoying.