[TUHS] who is "Veigh S. Meer"?

[TUHS] who is "Veigh S. Meer"?

[Norman Wilson]

Dave Horsfall:

  Call me slow, but can someone please explain the joke?  If it's American 
  humo[u]r, then remember that I'm British/Australian...

There is no such thing as American humour, because Yanks don't know
how to spell.

They can't get the wood either.

Norman Wilson
(reformed Yank)
Toronto ON

[TUHS] who is "Veigh S. Meer"?

[John Cowan]

Norman Wilson scripsit:

> They can't get the wood either.

Nor can we take the piss.

> Norman Wilson
> (reformed Yank)

"There are two kinds of Yanks, those who know nothing about Canada,
and those who don't care either."  --me talking to Robert McNeil at a
lecture by him

-- 
John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
At times of peril or dubitation,
Perform swift circular ambulation,
With loud and high-pitched ululation.

[TUHS] who is "Veigh S. Meer"?

[Doug McIlroy]

> The punning pseudonym, the complaint at the end that Unix and C are dead
> and nothing is even on the horizon to replace them, and the general snarky
> tone suggest to me that it's Rob "Mark V. Shaney" Pike.  In that case,
> the affiliation with Bellcore is a blind ("not Goodyear, Goodrich").

VSM, MVS: what other mystery authors in Unix land identify thus with VMS?

Doug

[TUHS] who is "Veigh S. Meer"?

[Dave Horsfall]

Thanks, all; Yiddish is not exactly one of my strong points...

-- 
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   "The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of
roughly a factor of two per year." -- G.Moore, Electronics, Vol 38 No 8, 1965

[TUHS] who is "Veigh S. Meer"?

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Friday, 17 July 2015 at  7:04:47 +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jul 2015, John Cowan wrote:
>
>> The punning pseudonym, the complaint at the end that Unix and C are dead
>> and nothing is even on the horizon to replace them, and the general
>> snarky tone suggest to me that it's Rob "Mark V. Shaney" Pike.  In that
>> case, the affiliation with Bellcore is a blind ("not Goodyear,
>> Goodrich").
>
> Call me slow, but can someone please explain the joke?  If it's American
> humo[u]r, then remember that I'm British/Australian...

Thanks, Dave.  I didn't want to ask.

Greg
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[TUHS] who is "Veigh S. Meer"?

[John Cowan]

Scripsit Dave Horsfall:

> On Thu, 16 Jul 2015, John Cowan wrote:
>
>> The punning pseudonym,
>
> Call me slow, but can someone please explain the joke?  If it's American
> humo[u]r, then remember that I'm British/Australian...

It represents a phonetic respelling of Yiddish "vey iz mir", corresponding
etymologically to German "Weh ist mir" and English "woe is me", but more
idiomatically to "Oh, no!", expressing despair.

-- 

[TUHS] who is "Veigh S. Meer"?

[Dave Horsfall]

On Thu, 16 Jul 2015, John Cowan wrote:

> The punning pseudonym, the complaint at the end that Unix and C are dead 
> and nothing is even on the horizon to replace them, and the general 
> snarky tone suggest to me that it's Rob "Mark V. Shaney" Pike.  In that 
> case, the affiliation with Bellcore is a blind ("not Goodyear, 
> Goodrich").

Call me slow, but can someone please explain the joke?  If it's American 
humo[u]r, then remember that I'm British/Australian...

(Yes, I'm familiar with Mark V. Shaney, and have even used it.)

-- 
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer"
   "The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of
roughly a factor of two per year." -- G.Moore, Electronics, Vol 38 No 8, 1965

[TUHS] who is "Veigh S. Meer"?

[Deborah Scherrer]

Good logic....I bet you're right.
Debbie

On 7/16/15 1:17 PM, John Cowan wrote:
> Scripsit Deborah Scherrer:
>
>> Peter Salus noted there was workshop in Newport, RI, in 1984 concerning
>> "Distributed UNIX." The report on "Distributed UNIX" by Veigh S. Meer [a
>> transparent pseudonym] appeared in /;login:/ 9.5 (November 1984), pp.
>> 5-9. So who was "Veigh S. Meer"? The affiliation says "Bellcore," but
>> who was there in 1984?  Peter's first thought was Peter Langston.
> The punning pseudonym, the complaint at the end that Unix and C are dead
> and nothing is even on the horizon to replace them, and the general snarky
> tone suggest to me that it's Rob "Mark V. Shaney" Pike.  In that case,
> the affiliation with Bellcore is a blind ("not Goodyear, Goodrich").
>

[TUHS] who is "Veigh S. Meer"?

[John Cowan]

Scripsit Deborah Scherrer:

> Peter Salus noted there was workshop in Newport, RI, in 1984 concerning
> "Distributed UNIX." The report on "Distributed UNIX" by Veigh S. Meer [a
> transparent pseudonym] appeared in /;login:/ 9.5 (November 1984), pp.
> 5-9. So who was "Veigh S. Meer"? The affiliation says "Bellcore," but
> who was there in 1984?  Peter's first thought was Peter Langston.

The punning pseudonym, the complaint at the end that Unix and C are dead
and nothing is even on the horizon to replace them, and the general snarky
tone suggest to me that it's Rob "Mark V. Shaney" Pike.  In that case,
the affiliation with Bellcore is a blind ("not Goodyear, Goodrich").

-- 
John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
All Gaul is divided into three parts: the part that cooks with lard and goose
fat, the part that cooks with olive oil, and the part that cooks with butter.
  --David Chessler

[TUHS] who is "Veigh S. Meer"?

[Deborah Scherrer]

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Peter Salus noted there was workshop in Newport, RI, in 1984 concerning 
"Distributed UNIX." The report on “Distributed UNIX” by Veigh S. Meer [a 
transparent pseudonym] appeared in /;login:/ 9.5 (November 1984), pp. 
5-9. So who was "Veigh S. Meer"? The affiliation says "Bellcore," but 
who was there in 1984?    Peter's first thought was Peter Langston.

Any ideas?

Debbie
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