From: arnold@skeeve.com (arnold@skeeve.com)
Subject: [TUHS] Charles Forsyth on putting Unix on a diet.
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 00:55:04 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201710270655.v9R6t44U016411@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.02.1710262340520.70332@frieza.hoshinet.org>
Steve Nickolas <usotsuki at buric.co> wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Oct 2017, George Michaelson wrote:
>
> > I worked with Charles in the University of York. he's the guy who said
> > to me "how can it be simple, if the printout is half an inch thick"
> > about SMTP.
> >
> > ....
>
> This is that guy who did the clone of the v7 Bourne shell that used to be
> used in Minix and PicoBSD and was the basis of pdksh?
Yes.
Charles is still very active in the Plan 9 world. I don't know if he
still prefers ed over sam or Acme though. :-)
Arnold
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-27 6:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-25 2:51 Dan Cross
2017-10-25 3:14 ` Larry McVoy
2017-10-26 17:27 ` Larry McVoy
2017-10-26 22:12 ` George Michaelson
2017-10-27 3:49 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-10-27 6:55 ` arnold [this message]
2017-10-27 7:30 ` Derek Fawcus
2017-10-27 9:44 ` David Arnold
2017-10-26 14:57 Doug McIlroy
2017-10-26 22:07 ` George Michaelson
2017-10-27 10:36 Noel Chiappa
2017-10-27 13:03 ` Clem Cole
2017-10-27 13:23 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-10-27 21:51 ` Andy Kosela
2017-10-27 23:04 ` Larry McVoy
2017-10-27 23:15 ` Steve Simon
2017-10-27 23:39 ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-10-28 2:00 ` Bakul Shah
2017-10-28 2:34 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-10-28 2:42 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-10-28 6:38 ` Bakul Shah
2017-10-27 21:43 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-10-27 21:30 Norman Wilson
2017-10-27 22:49 ` Chris Torek
2017-10-28 13:11 Norman Wilson
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