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From: Jon Forrest <nobozo@gmail.com>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Cool talk on Unix and Sendmail history, by Eric Allman
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2023 18:55:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <02da826d-d13a-0c3e-2da7-4ae72605e44f@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230721223017.GA25639@mcvoy.com>



On 7/21/2023 3:30 PM, Larry McVoy wrote:

> I think it was pre-COVID but I had a gathering of systems people at my
> place in the Santa Cruz mountains and Kirk and Eric were there.  I ended
> up talking to Eric for quite a while and what went through my mind was
> "This is so pleasant, I'd hire this guy or happily work for this guy.

I've had the pleasure and honor of working with and for Eric several
times in my career. He's one of the best programmers I've ever seen.

Jon


  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-07-22  1:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-21 18:53 [TUHS] " Rich Morin
2023-07-21 22:14 ` [TUHS] " Grant Taylor via TUHS
2023-07-21 22:30   ` Larry McVoy
2023-07-21 22:33     ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2023-07-21 22:39       ` Larry McVoy
2023-07-21 23:39     ` Steve Nickolas
2023-07-22  4:37       ` John Cowan
2023-07-22  1:48     ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-07-22  1:55     ` Jon Forrest [this message]
2023-07-22  6:45     ` Lars Brinkhoff
2023-07-22 14:54 ` Rich Salz
2023-07-22 15:24   ` Warner Losh
2023-07-22 16:12     ` Arrigo Triulzi via TUHS
2023-07-22 20:52   ` Dave Horsfall
2023-07-30 17:33 Douglas McIlroy
2023-07-30 18:22 Norman Wilson
2023-07-30 21:43 ` Rob Pike
2023-07-30 23:34   ` George Michaelson
2023-07-30 23:59     ` Erik E. Fair
2023-07-31  0:26       ` Warner Losh
2023-07-31 22:57         ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2023-07-31 23:05           ` Warner Losh
2023-08-01  2:45             ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2023-08-01  1:51         ` Niklas Karlsson
2023-08-01  2:47           ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2023-08-01  3:20           ` Theodore Ts'o
2023-07-31  0:41       ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-08-01  9:22       ` Marc Donner
2023-08-01 10:58         ` Erik E. Fair
2023-08-02  0:37           ` Dave Horsfall
2023-08-02 14:52             ` Ron Natalie
2023-08-02 21:14               ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2023-08-02 22:20                 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-08-02 22:37                   ` Warner Losh
2023-08-02 23:49                   ` Rich Salz
2023-08-02 23:33               ` Dave Horsfall

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