From: Jon Steinhart <jon@fourwinds.com>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] AT&T Research
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2020 13:36:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202007112036.06BKaouX154046@darkstar.fourwinds.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200711203020.GA1884@minnie.tuhs.org>
Warren Toomey writes:
> On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 11:36:35AM -0400, Clem Cole wrote:
> > https://spinroot.com/pico/watertower.jpg
>
> So there's a question. Obviously all the anecdotes I've heard about
> Bell Labs have come from Unix people. But there were many others
> working and researching there.
>
> How was the interaction between the Unix people and the non-Unix people
> at the Labs? Especially when Unix became "big"? Did the non-Unix people
> also pull pranks like the watertower?
>
> Cheers, Warren
That's kind of a strange question. I was never a "UNIX person" when I was
there because UNIX just wasn't that big a deal then (versions 3-6). I worked
on other stuff, and used UNIX for documentation. I was intrigued and learned
a lot more about it, and hung out in the UNIX room late at night because it
was the place to be, but UNIX was a negligible blip compared to everything
else going on there. Astonishingly enough, people worked on things related
(even if tangentially) to telephony.
Jon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-11 20:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-11 1:08 John P. Linderman
2020-07-11 1:32 ` Larry McVoy
2020-07-11 1:51 ` John P. Linderman
2020-07-11 15:36 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-11 20:30 ` Warren Toomey
2020-07-11 20:36 ` Jon Steinhart [this message]
2020-07-11 21:58 ` Rob Pike
2020-07-11 22:29 ` Larry McVoy
2020-07-12 7:55 ` Ed Bradford
2020-07-12 2:22 ` [TUHS] BTL pranks [was AT&T Research] Doug McIlroy
2020-07-12 11:58 ` [TUHS] Monitoring by loudspeaker (was: BTL pranks) Michael Kjörling
2020-07-12 13:25 ` Dan Cross
2020-07-12 14:58 ` Robert Clausecker
2020-07-12 16:09 ` [TUHS] Monitoring by loudspeaker Al Kossow
2020-07-12 20:10 ` [TUHS] Fwd: " Rich Morin
2020-08-23 8:58 ` [TUHS] " Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2020-07-23 4:13 ` [TUHS] AT&T Research scj
2020-07-23 6:02 ` [TUHS] Technical decisions based on political considerations [was Re: AT&T Research] arnold
2020-07-23 14:42 ` Larry McVoy
2020-07-12 20:38 [TUHS] AT&T Research Norman Wilson
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