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From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] AT&T Research
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2020 15:29:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200711222935.GU29318@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKzdPgyvUVVRDNkCi7SnExXPzn1oSz7MNCquSpQ1y7eOOmxsYg@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 07:58:01AM +1000, Rob Pike wrote:
> Not everyone played with the rest, and we didn't do as much work with
> development was management asked, but that world was very special. I miss
> it every day.

I'm super jealous of your experiences there.  I've told anyone who would
listen that Bell Labs held more of what I'd call my heroes than any other
place.

I went to Sun because it was as close as I could get in my day, and it was
good, but Bell Labs seems like it was magic.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-11 22:30 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
2020-07-11 21:58     ` Rob Pike
2020-07-11 22:29       ` Larry McVoy [this message]
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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