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From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: UNIX Influence on Teletype and Vice Versa
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2023 18:14:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230922011424.GO28844@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKH6PiWLJyDsYrmtdDFZj45nK01ajJCtxZBpES70oniJnRC13Q@mail.gmail.com>

This is perhaps silly, but I really wanted to meet Joe Ossanna because
of troff.  It was not meant to be.  My dad told me you aren't dead until
they stop talking about you.  Good to see that Joe is still with us.

On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 09:08:13PM -0400, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> I omitted one crucial fact from my post about Joe Ossanna's influence
> on the TTY 37. That happened not in  connection with Unix, but with
> Multics. When Unix came on the scene, model 37 was already in
> production.
> 
> Doug

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Larry McVoy           Retired to fishing          http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/boat

  reply	other threads:[~2023-09-22  1:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-22  1:08 Douglas McIlroy
2023-09-22  1:14 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2023-09-22  4:57   ` Dave Horsfall
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-09-18 20:02 Douglas McIlroy
2023-09-18 18:07 [TUHS] " segaloco via TUHS
2023-09-18 18:21 ` [TUHS] " Ronald Natalie
2023-09-18 18:27   ` Paul Winalski

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