[COFF] [TUHS] (Off topic) Dave Mills (fwd)

[COFF] [TUHS] (Off topic) Dave Mills (fwd)

[Dave Horsfall]

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Seen on TUHS...

-- Dave

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Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2024 12:27:41 +1000
From: George Michaelson <ggm@algebras.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <TUHS@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] (Off topic) Dave Mills

Dave Mills, of fuzzball and ntp fame, one time U Delaware died on the 17th
of January.
He was an interesting, entertaining, prolific and rather idosyncratic
emailer. Witty and informative. 

G

[COFF] Re: [TUHS] (Off topic) Dave Mills (fwd)

[Clem Cole]

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There has been a lot of discussion on the Internet History list.   Vint is
putting together a file of Mill's stories.
[While I met him a few times, I did not know him very well,  so I'm not
going to be a source of any of them].
ᐧ

On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 4:50 PM Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:

> Seen on TUHS...
>
> -- Dave
>
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> Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2024 12:27:41 +1000
> From: George Michaelson <ggm@algebras.org>
> To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <TUHS@tuhs.org>
> Subject: [TUHS] (Off topic) Dave Mills
>
> Dave Mills, of fuzzball and ntp fame, one time U Delaware died on the 17th
> of January.
> He was an interesting, entertaining, prolific and rather idosyncratic
> emailer. Witty and informative.
>
> G
>

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[COFF] Re: (Off topic) Dave Mills

[steve jenkin]

This list post by Vint
	<https://elists.isoc.org/pipermail/internet-history/2024-January/009271.html>

Points to this Google Doc
	<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XU6Fn5rFeJLO4mIBSa9e8V8BIDwafI0Lvlmi4gQwcmE/edit>


> On 21 Jan 2024, at 09:33, Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:
> 
> There has been a lot of discussion on the Internet History list.   Vint is putting together a file of Mill's stories.
> [While I met him a few times, I did not know him very well,  so I'm not going to be a source of any of them].


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[COFF] Re: (Off topic) Dave Mills (fwd)

[Tomasz Rola]

On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 07:48:46AM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> Seen on TUHS...
> 
> -- Dave
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2024 12:27:41 +1000
> From: George Michaelson <ggm@algebras.org>
> To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <TUHS@tuhs.org>
> Subject: [TUHS] (Off topic) Dave Mills
> 
> Dave Mills, of fuzzball and ntp fame, one time U Delaware died on the 17th
> of January.
> He was an interesting, entertaining, prolific and rather idosyncratic
> emailer. Witty and informative. 
> 
> G

An article on Ars Technica with a bunch of links:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/inventor-of-ntp-protocol-that-keeps-time-on-billions-of-devices-dies-at-age-85/

and some reflections from HN users with some more tech-related links:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39051246

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Tomasz Rola

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