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From: thomas kirk <tk@research.att.com>
To: Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>,
	Doug McIlroy <doug@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Chaos networking in 8th edition (and in 7th)
Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 13:25:01 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <24262.47469.805801.16547@alice.research.att.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKzdPgyWWNWY+JXwZxwTh+5gU5MDEj0Unae=12T-4_t45+_mRQ@mail.gmail.com>

there were several symbolics machines nearby in 1125/6. no reason for any of them
to be using chaosnet, but some probably did anyway.


Rob Pike writes:
 > I have vague memories of one in 1135 or 1138. Could just be thinking of the
 > Symbolics poster by Bart's desk, though, the one advertising Emacs's "over
 > 400 easy to use commands".
 > 
 > -rob
 > 
 > 
 > On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 1:30 PM Doug McIlroy <doug@cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
 > 
 > > >> I don't recall any use of Chaos in 1127.  Possibly one of
 > > >> the nearby groups who also used the Research system needed
 > > >> it at some point
 > >
 > > > Speculating wildly, maybe there was a Lisp machine somewhere?
 > >
 > > None that I can remember.
 > >
 > > Doug
 > >

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-05-21 20:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-20  3:29 Doug McIlroy
2020-05-20  6:06 ` Rob Pike
2020-05-20 11:43   ` William Cheswick
2020-05-20 12:30     ` John P. Linderman
2020-05-21 15:18   ` Dave Horsfall
2020-05-21 16:29     ` Nemo Nusquam
2020-05-21 16:59     ` Lars Brinkhoff
2020-05-21 18:39     ` [TUHS] EMACS (was Re: Chaos networking in 8th edition (and in 7th)) Derek Fawcus
2020-05-21 18:50     ` [TUHS] Chaos networking in 8th edition (and in 7th) Paul Winalski
2020-05-21 17:25   ` thomas kirk [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-05-18 21:52 Norman Wilson
2020-05-19  3:41 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2020-05-18 21:01 Paul Ruizendaal

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