From: lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS] (no subject)
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:42:26 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100113034226.GI27848@bitmover.com> (raw)
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Subject: Re: [TUHS] E_GREG ??
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In-Reply-To: <06978479-C120-40CF-8878-BE15EFE01B76 at coraid.com>
Hey, I know and like Greg. I used to work for him. I've cc-ed him on this,
he may not know about this list. And might enjoy it.
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:07:19PM -0500, Brantley Coile wrote:
> Greg Chesson. He designed the uucp g protocol. There was a piece of
> networking gear at Murray hill that Greg worked on that every now and
> then would fail to connect. Someone modified the message to read "it's
> all Greg's fault.". Later the string became an errno, I think for the
> Netb file server protocol. Plan 9 still has an EGREG even though it is a
> string in plan 9. It now reads "Ken has left the building."
>
> iPhone email
>
> On Dec 15, 2009, at 7:02 PM, Warren Toomey <wkt at tuhs.org> wrote:
>
>> I just saw this on Groklaw:
>>
>> There were not many machines which ran Version 10. They were all
>> at Murray Hill and some of them were donated to Auburn University
>> when AT&T closed up shop. We got some old MicroVAX machines and
>> a couple of printed manuals. One of the printed manuals lists
>> various error codes. One of them is
>>
>> E_GREG Greg did it.
>>
>> Poor Greg. who was he, really?
>>
>> Anybody know the answer? Norman?
>>
>> P.S Merry Xmas to all.
>> Cheers,
>> Warren
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2010-01-13 3:42 Larry McVoy [this message]
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2021-04-06 7:23 ` arnold
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2021-04-07 1:01 ` Jon Steinhart
2015-12-26 4:51 Doug McIlroy
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2015-07-19 20:55 Brian Walden
2015-07-18 17:43 Mark Longridge
2015-07-18 17:53 ` Larry McVoy
2015-07-19 0:57 ` Warren Toomey
2015-07-19 1:13 ` Larry McVoy
2015-07-19 1:19 ` Milo Velimirovic
2006-02-22 5:08 dmr
2005-07-20 21:17 Brantley Coile
2003-05-23 4:10 Dennis Ritchie
2003-05-24 3:42 ` Kenneth Stailey
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