* [TUHS] Login names of early Unix contributors
@ 2013-02-17 12:28 Diomidis Spinellis
2013-02-17 17:16 ` markus schnalke
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From: Diomidis Spinellis @ 2013-02-17 12:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
Does anyone have a record or pointer regarding the login names of the
early Unix contributors? A few (aho, dmr, bwk, doug) are listed in
http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/, but many others seem to be missing.
In particular I'm interested in the login names of following people:
S. R. Bourne
D. Haight
S. C. Johnson
J. F. Maranzano
L. E. McMahon
S. I. Feldman
J. F. Ossanna
M. E. Lesk
R. H. Morris
D. A. Nowitz
I guess the /etc/passwd file from a Bell Labs system of the mid 1970s
would be ideal, but even partial recollections would help me.
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* [TUHS] Login names of early Unix contributors
2013-02-17 12:28 [TUHS] Login names of early Unix contributors Diomidis Spinellis
@ 2013-02-17 17:16 ` markus schnalke
2013-02-17 19:36 ` markus schnalke
2013-02-17 20:54 ` Diomidis Spinellis
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From: markus schnalke @ 2013-02-17 17:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
[2013-02-17 14:28] Diomidis Spinellis <dds at aueb.gr>
>
> In particular I'm interested in the login names of following people:
>
> S. R. Bourne
`srb' as printed in his book ``The UNIX System''.
Others will likely be able to help in a larger scale.
meillo
P.S.
Hello mailing list. :-)
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* [TUHS] Login names of early Unix contributors
2013-02-17 12:28 [TUHS] Login names of early Unix contributors Diomidis Spinellis
2013-02-17 17:16 ` markus schnalke
@ 2013-02-17 19:36 ` markus schnalke
2013-02-17 20:54 ` Diomidis Spinellis
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From: markus schnalke @ 2013-02-17 19:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
[2013-02-17 14:28] Diomidis Spinellis <dds at aueb.gr>
>
> J. F. Ossanna
I found him in http://man.cat-v.org/unix-1st/1/roff
jfo
meillo
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* [TUHS] Login names of early Unix contributors
2013-02-17 12:28 [TUHS] Login names of early Unix contributors Diomidis Spinellis
2013-02-17 17:16 ` markus schnalke
2013-02-17 19:36 ` markus schnalke
@ 2013-02-17 20:54 ` Diomidis Spinellis
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From: Diomidis Spinellis @ 2013-02-17 20:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
On 17/02/2013 14:28, Diomidis Spinellis wrote:
> Does anyone have a record or pointer regarding the login names of the
> early Unix contributors?
[...]
> In particular I'm interested in the login names of following people:
> S. R. Bourne
> D. Haight
> S. C. Johnson
> J. F. Maranzano
> L. E. McMahon
> S. I. Feldman
> J. F. Ossanna
> M. E. Lesk
> R. H. Morris
> D. A. Nowitz
[...]
I got off-list the following full reply; thank you!
On 17/02/2013 15:50, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:
> See below, from Brian Kernighan (I asked :-)
>
> And FWIW, I note that in the "Electronic Mail Without Aliases" paper from
> 1980, Mike Lesk uses "research!mel" as his own email address.
>
> Arnold
> ------------------------------------
>> Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 08:17:29 -0500 (EST)
>> From: Brian Kernighan
>> To: arnold at skeeve.com
>> Subject: Re: FYI: query for Login names of early Unix contributors
>>
>> srb
>> rhaight? [can't recall; why not ask: rhaight at accn.org]
>> scj
>> jfm
>> sif
>> jfo
>> mel / lesk; can't recall when he switched
>> rhm
>> dan
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* [TUHS] Login names of early Unix contributors
@ 2013-04-04 2:24 Doug McIlroy
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From: Doug McIlroy @ 2013-04-04 2:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
About two queries on the topic.
Yes, L. L. Cherry is Lorinda Lillian Cherry.
Rudd Canaday was in on building the foundation, but not the
ground floor. When the Thompson/Ritchie/Canaday (and independently
Strachey/Stoy) file system came to be built, Rudd had completed
his visiting assignment in Computing Science Research. When he
did get a login, he was rhc, but his UID was not among the
single-digit set.
Doug McIlroy
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* [TUHS] Login names of early Unix contributors
@ 2013-03-31 14:44 Doug McIlroy
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From: Doug McIlroy @ 2013-03-31 14:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
> Does anyone have a record or pointer regarding the login names of the
> early Unix contributors?
[...]
> In particular I'm interested in the login names of following people:
> S. R. Bourne
> D. Haight
> S. C. Johnson
> J. F. Maranzano
> L. E. McMahon
> S. I. Feldman
> J. F. Ossanna
> M. E. Lesk
> R. H. Morris
> D. A. Nowitz
[...]
Your correspondents have done a good job of reconstructing the
old list. Alas, I can't remember the only missing entry, Dick
Haight's login. The above list, however, wants one small
correction. Robert Morris did not have a middle name, the
"h" was a figment for filling in forms that wanted a middle
initial.
Another important name is
L. L. Cherry llc
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