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From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: David <david@kdbarto.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] An Excellent Unix YouTube Video
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2019 10:49:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190803174917.GI27132@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <74D3057C-2F84-4551-B2B0-BBBC27833F20@kdbarto.org>

Couldn't agree more.  And the description of Dennis was spot on
and matches my own interactions with him.  Hell of a nice guy and
willing to help you if you demonstated cluefullness (and from what
I've heard, even without cluefulness).

Thanks Ken and Dennis, it's been one hell of a ride and it is still
going!

On Sat, Aug 03, 2019 at 10:35:56AM -0700, David wrote:
> Short and wonderful as a complement to 2 very good people.
> 
> 	David
> 
> > On Aug 3, 2019, at 8:28 AM, Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Thanks, Warren - that was wonderful to watch.  Clem
> > 
> > On Fri, Aug 2, 2019 at 8:34 PM Warren Toomey <wkt@tuhs.org <mailto:wkt@tuhs.org>> wrote:
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3jOJfrOknA <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3jOJfrOknA>
> > 
> > National Inventors Hall of Fame - NIHF
> > Published on Feb 18, 2019
> > Bell Labs colleagues Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie developed UNIX,
> > a multi-tasking, multi-user operating system alternative to the batch
> > processing systems then dominating the computer industry.
> > 
> > Not sure why I hadn't seen this before :)
> > 
> > Cheers, Warren
> 

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Larry McVoy            	     lm at mcvoy.com             http://www.mcvoy.com/lm 

  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-03 17:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-03  0:33 Warren Toomey
2019-08-03 15:28 ` Clem Cole
2019-08-03 17:35   ` David
2019-08-03 17:49     ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2019-08-06  6:49 ` emanuel stiebler

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