From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Any Good dmr Anecdotes?
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2018 13:34:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180703133453.1684158e@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5D272962-0063-4D28-B551-F381D3D10239@alchemistowl.org>
Incredibly lame anecdote follows:
Decades ago, I buttonholed dmr at a Usenix ATC and asked him a
bunch of questions about early Unix kernels. I can't remember any of
the specifics any longer (which is a shame in itself), but I do
remember that instead of shooing me away, he was insanely polite and
kind even though he didn't know me and had no reason to be so nice.
Afterwards someone (I think it may have been Tom Christiansen)
pointed out to me that I'd taken up far too much of his time, and
said something to the effect that one had to be careful not to take
excess advantage of his kindness.
Perry
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Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-03 17:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-29 7:53 Warren Toomey
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 [this message]
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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