From: Andrew Hume <andrew@humeweb.com>
To: M Douglas McIlroy <m.douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Fred Grampp
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2021 07:31:47 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <121E36A0-4D3D-42AD-A89A-E72FBDD32E39@humeweb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKH6PiWZPjsyDp-sgq-3Y5_tn9mwFNKT54Mnt57M00GB2HdDJQ@mail.gmail.com>
fred was certainly a character.
perhaps ken or rob might confirm this, but i recall at least one of the canoe trips demonstrated
the effects of dropping flour sacks onto canoes from a small airplane. (i was not present on any
of these trips, but heard this from grampp.)
he was also responsible for occasionally buying bulk bags of barely digestible cheese crackers
(we called them cheese awfuls) and leaving them in the Unix Room to be eaten.
> On Mar 11, 2021, at 7:06 AM, M Douglas McIlroy <m.douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu> wrote:
>
> In all that's been written about the Research Unix players,
> Fred Grampp has gotten far less coverage than he deserves.
> I hope to rectify that with this post, most of which was
> written soon after his death.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-11 15:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-11 15:06 M Douglas McIlroy
2021-03-11 15:31 ` Andrew Hume [this message]
2021-03-11 16:13 ` M Douglas McIlroy
2021-03-11 19:50 ` Ken Thompson
2021-03-11 20:06 ` Anthony Martin
2021-03-11 20:30 ` Rob Pike
2021-03-11 22:00 ` M Douglas McIlroy
2021-03-11 21:48 ` Brantley Coile
2021-03-11 21:23 Norman Wilson
2021-03-11 21:39 ` William Cheswick
2021-03-11 23:35 Norman Wilson
2021-03-11 23:42 ` Clem Cole
2021-03-12 13:34 ` William Cheswick
2021-03-12 13:30 ` William Cheswick
2021-03-15 22:46 Brian Walden
2021-03-16 1:12 ` M Douglas McIlroy
2021-03-16 12:47 ` William Cheswick
2021-03-17 3:46 ` Tomasz Rola
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