Re: [9fans] drawterm

[Vester Thacker <vester.thacker@gmail.com>]

I'm not advocating hero worship, but Boyd was a terrific guy. I
believe that he thought he could make a greater difference by helping
others. He helped a small number of us on #plan9 and even on a few
other channels. I greatly appreciated his help, his stories and most
importantly his friendship.

Here are some excerpts of Boyd's from #plan9 (sorry, of course,
they're out of context):

"And my orders are to weed out all non-hackers who do not pack
the gear to serve in my beloved Corps!"

"anyone with doubts on my 'credentials' can mail ken, dennis,
rob, whoever ..."

"uriel yer a utopian nihilist" ...."well uriel is a tough fucker"

"drunken australians, with 9mm pistols wandering into a nick,
 without a permit, who belongs to the federal cops gun range --
 it's a bit implausible"

"while they flounder around, no-one should help 'em
so they die -- natural selection
9p has been around for ages and these fools have picked up every
damn stupid f/s known to man, 'cept 9p"

"see glenda
  see glenda run
  run glenda, run
  seen glenda"

"Unfortunately John Mackin, whose reality I have backed up on
a 9 track, in tar format, is no longer around to tell the old
stories, but he was certainly involved in them. I remember the
time we fixed a broken 32V file-system's /etc with a screwdriver,
sticky tape, adb, dd and a magtape."

"well i do
but my stories can be negated by any of the 3rd parties
i was lucky -- that's all
i'd prefer to share what i know"


Perhaps these aren't the best of his comments, but I find it difficult
to go through his comments after his death.

--vester thacker
  aka "Gunney"