From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id dc42e953 for ; Fri, 19 Apr 2019 12:10:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 596829B4F4; Fri, 19 Apr 2019 22:10:58 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C14E294EB5; Fri, 19 Apr 2019 22:10:42 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 4E46294EB5; Fri, 19 Apr 2019 22:10:41 +1000 (AEST) Received: from smtp-out-1.mxes.net (smtp-out-1.mxes.net [205.237.194.119]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D11C194BFD for ; Fri, 19 Apr 2019 22:10:40 +1000 (AEST) Received: from Customer-MUA (mua.mxes.net [10.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A639D275D5; Fri, 19 Apr 2019 08:10:39 -0400 (EDT) From: To: "'Jon Steinhart'" , References: <1555603775.18441.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> <201904181637.x3IGbDDM007680@darkstar.fourwinds.com> In-Reply-To: <201904181637.x3IGbDDM007680@darkstar.fourwinds.com> Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 08:10:38 -0400 Message-ID: <480401d4f6a8$e725f4b0$b571de10$@ronnatalie.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 16.0 Thread-Index: AQCcfBsPE9Hk/SI6JYV1auU1Y6k/LQMFHag0qJwtSWA= Content-Language: en-us X-Sent-To: X-Sender: ronnatalie.com Subject: Re: [TUHS] Talk about some interesting things about Dennis 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: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" I hung out with Dennis at various conferences and had various emails with him over the year. He was usually quiet but did have a wry sense of humor. Mostly at the conferences, he was content to hang out with us in the lobby or wherever. If you didn't know who he was, he looked just like the rest of the UNIX geeks. He was very caring, and I got a condolence email on the passing of a colleague. The most unexpected one was that back in the day on one of the mailing lists, I think it was INFO-MICRO and not UNIX-WIZARDS, someone was talking about since Andrew Fluegelman had died recently and he is generally credited with the idea of shareware, that it be renamed fluegelwaer in his honor. In my rebuttal I suggested that we rename the C compiler Ritchie. I got a quick "Let's nip this in the bud right now" letter from Dennis. One year while working for the Army I made up a bunch of No Ada t=-shirts and sold them at one of the conferences. I gave Dennis one and I always got a chuckle when I saw pictures of him wearing it later. If you have Peter Salus's UNIX history book, there's a picture of him wearing it there.