From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS] Of login names
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2016 21:09:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160718040921.GJ14094@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9a8ab85cdfb2b6ad42477ff146f10538.squirrel@webmail.yaccman.com>
On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 09:06:27PM -0700, scj at yaccman.com wrote:
> My login name story has many fewer characters. At Bell Labs, it was
> common for people to use their initials as their login name. Dennis was
> dmr, I was scj, Mike Lesk was mel, etc. (Ken was an exception--he was
> ken). When Bjarne Stroustrup joined the company, he chose the login name
> bs. Several of us tried to tactfully suggest that this might not be the
> best choice, but he stuck with it...
I've been lm@ for a long time. The ones I liked the best were lm at sun.com
and lm at cs.stanford.edu.
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Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-17 12:05 Norman Wilson
2016-07-17 12:32 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-07-17 23:09 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-18 4:06 ` scj
2016-07-18 4:09 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2016-07-18 10:42 ` William Cheswick
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2016-07-18 15:44 Doug McIlroy
2016-07-18 15:50 ` Joerg Schilling
2016-07-18 18:03 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-07-18 18:12 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-07-18 14:35 Norman Wilson
2016-07-18 14:44 ` Mary Ann Horton
2016-07-18 14:55 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-07-18 18:07 ` Steve Simon
2016-07-19 9:50 ` Tony Finch
2016-07-26 12:45 ` Tim Bradshaw
2016-07-26 13:07 ` George Ross
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2016-07-18 14:06 ` David
2016-07-19 12:41 ` Aaron Jackson
2016-10-19 20:53 ` Michael-John Turner
2016-10-19 22:35 ` Aaron Jackson
2016-07-17 8:06 Rudi Blom
2016-07-17 8:16 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-17 11:42 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-07-17 22:59 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-18 0:37 ` Brantley Coile
2016-07-18 10:51 ` William Cheswick
2016-07-16 16:54 Dave Horsfall
2016-07-16 23:04 ` Paul Osborne
2016-07-18 12:24 ` Tony Finch
2016-07-18 13:21 ` John Cowan
2016-07-17 2:56 ` Win Treese
2016-07-17 6:39 ` Tim Bradshaw
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