From: Doug McIlroy <doug@cs.dartmouth.edu>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Dennis Ritchie's dissertation
Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2020 12:44:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202008011644.071GiKXP124091@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> (raw)
> The use of honorifics was subtly discouraged at the Labs. I never saw a
policy statement, but nobody I knew used "Dr" (except those in the medical
department)
With the sole exception of the president's office, secretaries were
instructed not to say "Dr so-and-so's office" when they picked up an
unanswered phone call. (When that happened you could be sure that
the party you were calling was genuinely unavailable. Part of the
AT&T ethos--now abandoned--was that everybody, right up to the
president, answered their own phones.)
Doug
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2020-08-01 16:44 Doug McIlroy [this message]
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2020-08-01 21:24 [TUHS] Dennis Ritchie's Dissertation Norman Wilson
2020-07-31 12:56 Doug McIlroy
2020-07-31 0:03 Kirk McKusick
2020-07-31 0:26 ` Royce Williams
2020-07-31 0:30 ` Dan Cross
2020-07-31 0:36 ` Rich Morin
2020-08-01 7:14 ` markus schnalke
2020-08-01 14:13 ` Larry McVoy
2020-08-01 15:08 ` John P. Linderman
2020-08-01 16:43 ` Dan Cross
2020-08-01 17:21 ` Ken Thompson via TUHS
2020-08-01 17:34 ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-08-01 17:48 ` John Cowan
2020-08-01 20:24 ` John Gilmore
2020-07-31 0:35 ` Larry McVoy
2020-07-31 0:54 ` John Cowan
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