From: doug@cs.dartmouth.edu (Doug McIlroy)
Subject: [TUHS] A Talk on Early Unix
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 12:34:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201606301634.u5UGYw2i016010@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> (raw)
> I'm curious if the name "TPC" was an allusion to the apocryphal telephone
> company of the same name in the 1967 movie, "The President's Analyst"?
Good spotting. Ken T confirms it was from the flick.
doug
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