From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] In Memoriam: John Lions
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2019 20:16:53 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191205041653.GO32688@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1912051057480.99521@aneurin.horsfall.org>
He is a hero. His notes on early Unix made it understandable to me.
Though I have to say that Doug Comer did an equally good job with his XINU
books. Do you guys know of Doug? XINU stands for Xinu is not Unix but
he wrote, by himself, an OS and documented it in his books. I give him
credit for my desire to have code be really simple and self explanatory.
I'd kinda like to invite him to join us, what do you think?
On Thu, Dec 05, 2019 at 10:58:42AM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> We lost Dr. John Lions on this day in 1998; he was one of my Comp Sci
> lecturers (yes, I helped him write The Book, and yes, you'll find my name in
> the back).
>
> -- Dave
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-05 4:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-04 23:58 Dave Horsfall
2019-12-05 4:16 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2019-12-05 4:31 ` [TUHS] Xinu (was: In Memoriam: John Lions) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2019-12-08 10:56 ` Naveen Nathan
2019-12-05 6:26 ` [TUHS] In Memoriam: John Lions Wesley Parish
2019-12-05 6:53 ` Thomas Paulsen
2019-12-05 14:16 ` A. P. Garcia
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2018-12-04 21:16 Dave Horsfall
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