[COFF] [TUHS] Happy birthday, Morris Worm!

[a.phillip.garcia at gmail.com (A. P. Garcia)]

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On Sat, Nov 2, 2019, 2:44 AM William Corcoran <wlc at jctaylor.com> wrote:

> My comments were not directed to A. P. Garcia.
>
> I regret my error.
>
> Bill Corcoran
>
>
>
> On Nov 2, 2019, at 2:36 AM, William Corcoran <wlc at jctaylor.com> wrote:
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> Whoa!  Let’s rethink the defamatory ad hominem remarks here.  We were all
> kids once.  Moreover, my examination of this subject showed that some of
> our greatest computer scientists, at the time, went to bat for young
> Morris.  Moreover, calling RTM a nasty name like that is a shoe that simply
> doesn’t fit.  My goodness RTM is a professor at MIT.   It’s inarguable that
> the Morris Worm helped his career far more than it hurt it.  Plus, indeed,
> there was a genuine re-Morris from RTM.
>
> Bill Corcoran
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> <snip>

No worries. It's worth mentioning on a Unix mailing list that RTM
coauthored xv6, an x86 reimplementation of the v6 kernel. It sort of
carries the torch of the Lions book by teaching future generations about
the internals of operating systems and the Unix way. And that is a
beautiful thing.

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