From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Adam Thornton <athornton@gmail.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] ARS Technica on UNIX @ 50
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 18:32:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190830013224.GS10796@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2248B8D1-DEA8-453A-88DA-DAE5BC46DBEA@gmail.com>
I'm just watching this now, the MC is a died in the wool nerd, I love
him. Great dude, gonna send him some stuff.
On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 06:08:37PM -0700, Adam Thornton wrote:
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> > On Aug 29, 2019, at 12:15 PM, Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:
> >
> > https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/08/unix-at-50-it-starts-with-a-mainframe-a-gator-and-three-dedicated-researchers/ <https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/08/unix-at-50-it-starts-with-a-mainframe-a-gator-and-three-dedicated-researchers/>
>
> I???m really glad they cited the interviews Mike Mahoney, RIP, did with a lot of the principal people in his Oral History Of Unix. He was my thesis advisor. I did not finish my thesis, but several times in the last few months (not all about Unix; as LSST construction approaches completion, there???s been some thought about how to make our project documentation useful for future historians of science) I???ve thought ???Professor Mahoney would be interested in what I???m doing here.???
>
> I???d recommend raising a glass to his memory.
>
> Adam
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2019-08-29 19:15 Clem Cole
2019-08-30 1:08 ` Adam Thornton
2019-08-30 1:32 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
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