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From: Warren Toomey <wkt@tuhs.org>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Any Good dmr Anecdotes?
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2018 17:53:10 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180629075310.GA9477@minnie.tuhs.org> (raw)

We do have ken on the list, so I won't be presumptious to ask for ken-related
anecdotes, but would anybody like to share some dmr anecdotes?

I never met Dennis in person, but he was generous with his time about my
interest in Unix history; and also with sharing the material he still had.

Dennis was very clever, though. He would bring out a new artifact and say:
well, here's what I still have of X. Pity it will never execute again, sigh.

I'm sure he knew that I would take that as a challenge. Mind you, it worked,
which is why we now have the first Unix kernel in C, the 'nsys' kernel, and
the first two C compilers, in executable format.

Any other good anecdotes?

Cheers, Warren

             reply	other threads:[~2018-06-29  7:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-29  7:53 Warren Toomey [this message]
2018-06-29 10:53 ` ches@Cheswick.com
2018-06-29 12:51   ` John P. Linderman
2018-06-30  0:50   ` Steve Johnson
2018-06-30 11:44     ` Arrigo Triulzi
2018-06-30 22:42       ` Arthur Krewat
2018-06-30 23:29         ` Arrigo Triulzi
2018-07-01  4:17           ` Larry McVoy
2018-07-01 11:42           ` ron
2018-07-01  5:29       ` Dave Horsfall
2018-07-01  8:28         ` Arrigo Triulzi
2018-07-01 11:34         ` ron
2018-07-09 16:30           ` Random832
2018-07-09 17:13             ` Clem Cole
2018-07-10  5:54               ` arnold
2018-07-10  6:09                 ` George Michaelson
2018-07-10  7:19                   ` arnold
2018-07-11  0:20                     ` Noel Hunt
2018-07-11  1:31                       ` Larry McVoy
2018-07-11  1:37                         ` George Michaelson
2018-07-11  1:37                         ` ron minnich
2018-07-11  3:12                           ` Larry McVoy
2018-07-11  3:34                         ` [TUHS] getopt (was " Bakul Shah
2018-07-13  9:08                       ` [TUHS] " ches@Cheswick.com
2018-07-13 14:10                         ` ron
2018-07-10 14:10                 ` Clem Cole
2018-07-03 17:34       ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-29 23:55 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-06-30  0:06   ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2018-06-30 14:20   ` John P. Linderman
2018-06-30  1:31 Larry McVoy
2018-06-30  1:45 ` Jon Forrest
2018-06-30 18:43   ` Steve Johnson
2018-07-01 16:35 Norman Wilson
2018-07-02 19:55 Paul Ruizendaal
2018-07-03  7:27 arnold
2018-07-18  9:42 Hendrik Jan Thomassen

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