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From: doug@cs.dartmouth.edu (Doug McIlroy)
Subject: [TUHS] How Unix brings people together, or it's a small world
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2017 23:04:44 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201702030404.v1344iDQ000839@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> (raw)

As a tourist in Christchurch NZ in 1982, I saw a notice of a student piano
recital at the university. Free, why not? The fellow who sat next to me turned
out to be a phyicist. On learning that I was a computer scientist, he proudly
described his wonderful new computer and operating system--the first of its
kind in the university, if I remember correctly. I let on that I was familiar
with it, so we both left the recital with a small-world story to tell.

Doug


             reply	other threads:[~2017-02-03  4:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-03  4:04 Doug McIlroy [this message]
     [not found] <mailman.182.1485985948.3779.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2017-02-02 17:57 ` David
2017-02-05 22:10   ` Dave Horsfall
2017-02-06 16:07     ` Jason Stevens
2017-02-06 16:42     ` ron minnich

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