From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 21140 invoked from network); 8 Mar 2021 02:37:50 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 8 Mar 2021 02:37:50 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id B321A9CAB0; Mon, 8 Mar 2021 12:37:46 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 202A99CA8B; Mon, 8 Mar 2021 12:37:32 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 392E89CA8B; Mon, 8 Mar 2021 12:37:30 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mcvoy.com (mcvoy.com [192.169.23.250]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E96E39CA7A for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2021 12:37:28 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mcvoy.com (Postfix, from userid 3546) id 8931635E1FA; Sun, 7 Mar 2021 18:37:27 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2021 18:37:27 -0800 From: Larry McVoy To: Adam Thornton Message-ID: <20210308023727.GB17304@mcvoy.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Subject: Re: [TUHS] Richard Stevens X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" I became troff buddies with him. I love troff and all the other tools, pic especially because you can read pic code and see the picture in your head. Richard and I shared that love for pic. He and I talked quite a bit about how to do stuff in troff. Troff buddies is the best way to describe what we had, we bonded over that but I wasn't close to him otherwise. Still miss him and our troff exchanges, he was a great guy, those books were the best in their day. He was a lot like Dennis, willing to talk to you and educate you if you had a clue. On Sun, Mar 07, 2021 at 07:23:55PM -0700, Adam Thornton wrote: > The Richard Stevens books were huge here. I did not know him well but > emailed with him a few times in the year before he died. I never met him > in person but he was very kind to a much younger and more ignorant me. > > On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 7:21 PM wojciech@koszek.com > wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > > > I'm Wojciech Adam Koszek and I'm a new member here. After a short stint > > with Red Hat 6.0 and Slackware Linux around 2000-2001 (I think it was > > Slackware 7.0 or 7.1) my journey with UNIX started with FreeBSD 4.5. I fell > > in love with BSD and through Warner Losh, Robert Watson, and folks from a > > Polish UNIX scene, I became hooked. I ended up working with FreeBSD for the > > following 15 years or so. > > > > Anyway: the volume of the UNIX literature back then in Poland was scarce, > > yet through a small bookstore and a friendly salesman I got myself a "UNIX > > Network Programming Volume 1" at a huge discount, and read it back-to-back. > > > > Looking back, his books had a huge impact on my life (I had all his books, > > and read everything line by line, with a slight exception of TCP/IP > > illustrated vol 2, which I used as a reference), and while Stevens's > > website sheds some light on what he did, I often wonder what is the story > > behind how his books came to be. It doesn't help he appeared a very private > > person--never have I seen a photo of him anywhere. > > > > What was the reception of his books in the US? > > > > Did you know him? Do you know any more details about what he did after > > 1990? > > > > Thanks and take care, > > > > Wojciech Adam Koszek -- --- Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm