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From: doug@cs.dartmouth.edu (Doug McIlroy)
Subject: [TUHS] who is "Veigh S. Meer"?
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 21:18:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201507210118.t6L1IbJE005964@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> (raw)

> 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



             reply	other threads:[~2015-07-21  1:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-21  1:18 Doug McIlroy [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-07-16 22:21 Norman Wilson
2015-07-16 22:29 ` John Cowan
2015-07-16 15:48 Deborah Scherrer
2015-07-16 20:17 ` John Cowan
2015-07-16 20:27   ` Deborah Scherrer
2015-07-16 21:04   ` Dave Horsfall
2015-07-16 21:15     ` John Cowan
2015-07-16 23:31     ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2015-07-17  5:25     ` Dave Horsfall

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