From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Eckhardt Subject: Re: [9fans] How low can you go? To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20060418210323.GS9931@augusta.math.psu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <12301.1145441959.1@piper.nectar.cs.cmu.edu> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 06:19:19 -0400 Message-ID: <12302.1145441959@piper.nectar.cs.cmu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3f04f72c-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > The author of UREP could certainly have qualified as big brother. I knew Bob Owens well (he was my undergrad advisor at Penn State). He was quite a character--he managed to rub many people the wrong way, but he was also very generous. JNET, which was big-bucks commercial RSCS emulation software for VMS, was written from the UREP code base--as I recall, he gave it to the JNET authors because they asked him nicely. He was quite a hacker. His coding style seemed inexplicably alien until you realized it was designed around his severe dyslexia. AT&T donated a pile of 3B2's to the CS department. They were running some stuffy System III Unix including a frightening thing called 3Bnet. But they came with Blit (5620) terminals, and somehow the host-side software ran on BSD on our Vax. I don't remember whether the first mouse I used was a Sun optical mouse or the Depraz on the Blit. Boy, those buttons were nice. Dave Eckhardt