From: Mack Wallace <mackbw@mapinternet.com>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] rip mycroftiv
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2022 22:44:14 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0100018218a22091-489bdb2d-8195-4e96-82ea-0feda6050284-000000@email.amazonses.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG3JMtZ9LooVj2dBHDkw-xyghW2U5o1_GJMkhLGtgZ3G7b4N=w@mail.gmail.com>
So very sorry to hear. Mycroftiv was always helpful, fun to talk with, a good part of the community.
Purplechess, hypercubes, and ultrafilters! … and I hope peace. He will be missed.
mackbw
> On Jul 19, 2022, at 5:16 PM, Thaddeus Woskowiak <tswoskowiak@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I was curious about plan 9 since it was released from the labs.
> Couldn't make heads or tails of how to use it so I moved on to other
> things. One day late 2017, after nearly throwing my computer out the
> window, I was somehow reminded about plan 9 so I decided to give it a
> go again. I poked around and found Harvey but was still too green to
> do anything more than compile, boot a cpu server and drawterm in. I
> then found ANTS, booted it on my laptop and typed gridstart. I'm still
> here and have mycroftiv to thank.
>
> Mycroftiv, Thank you so much for everything. I hope you made it to
> hypercubic space - godspeed!
>
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 4:15 PM Stanley Lieber <sl@stanleylieber.com> wrote:
>>
>> all,
>>
>> i'm sorry to announce that today we learned mycroftiv (creator of ants, grid, etc.) has passed away. further information is not available at this time. he will be sorely missed.
>>
>> sl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-19 22:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-19 20:12 Stanley Lieber
2022-07-19 21:16 ` Thaddeus Woskowiak
2022-07-19 22:44 ` Mack Wallace [this message]
2022-07-19 23:18 ` Jacob Moody
2022-07-19 23:56 ` V.M. Haas
2022-07-20 2:59 ` william
2022-07-22 16:37 ` Jacob Moody
2022-07-20 9:07 ` Tom Schwindl
2022-07-20 15:09 ` Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir
2022-07-26 4:11 ` Amavect
2022-08-25 11:49 ` umbraticus
2022-08-25 19:02 ` qwx
2022-08-26 1:53 ` Amavect
2022-08-26 2:57 ` Thaddeus Woskowiak
2022-07-26 4:35 ` Amavect
2022-07-26 4:51 ` william
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