[TUHS] From BWK on contributor names

[TUHS] From BWK on contributor names

[Aharon Robbins]

Hi All.

Here is BWK's contribution.

| Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 17:28:21 -0400 (EDT)
| From: Brian Kernighan <bwk at cs.princeton.edu>
| To: arnold at skeeve.com
| Subject: Re: please get out your flash light...
|
| Some answers interpolated, but lots remain mysteries...
|
| On Thu, 24 Sep 2015, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:
|
| > Hi. Can you shed some light?
| >
| >> From: Diomidis Spinellis <dds at aueb.gr>
| >> To: tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org
| >> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 12:27:03 +0300
| >> Subject: [TUHS] Questions regarding early Unix contributors
| >>
| >> I found out that the book "Life with Unix" by Don Libes and Sandy
| >> Ressler has a seven page listing of Unix notables, and I'm using that to
| >> fill gaps in the contributors of the Unix history repository [1,2].
| >> Working through the list, the following questions came up.
| >>
| >> - Lorinda Cherry is credited with diction.  But diction.c first appears
| >> in 4BSD and 2.10BSD.  Did Lorinda Cherry implement it at Berkeley?
|
| Nina Macdonald, maybe?  Lorinda worked with people in that group.
|
| >> - Is Chuck Haley listed in the book as the author of tar the same as
| >> Charles B. Haley who co-authored V7 usr/doc/{regen,security,setup}?  He
| >> appears to have worked both at Bell labs (tar, usr/doc/*) and at
| >> Berkeley (ex, Pascal).  Is this correct?
|
| I think so.
|
| >> - Andrew Koenig is credited with varargs.  This is a four-line header
| >> file in V7. Did he actually write it?
| >>
| >> - Ted Dolotta is credited with the mm macros, but the document "Typing
| >> Documents with MM is written by by D. W. Smith and E. M. Piskorik.  Did
| >> its authors only write the documentation?  Did Ted Dolotta also write
| >> mmcheck?
|
| I don't think Ted wrote -mm; he might have been the manager of that
| group?  Ask him: ted at dolotta.org
|
| >> Also, I'm missing the login identifiers for the following people.  If
| >> anyone remembers them, please send me a note.
| >>
| >> Bell Labs, PWB, USG, USDL:
|
| ark
|
| >> Andrew Koenig
| >> Charles B. Haley
| >> Dick Haight
|
| Maybe rhaight, but don't quote me.  Last address I have is from
| long ago:  rhaight at jedi.accn.org
|
| >> Greg Chesson
|
| Can't remember whether it was grc or greg
|
| >> Herb Gellis
| >> Mark Rochkind
|
| You probably mean Marc J Rochkind.  I think it was mmr, but
| ask him: rochkind at basepath.com
|
| >> Ted Dolotta
| >>
| >> BSD:
| >> Bill Reeves
| >> Charles B. Haley
| >> Colin L. Mc Master
| >> Chris Van Wyk
|
| Was Chris ever part of BSD?  He was at Stanford, then Bell Labs,
| where he was cvw.
|
| >> Douglas Lanam
| >> David Willcox
| >> Eric Schienbrood
| >> Earl T. Cohen
| >> Herb Gellis
| >> Ivan Maltz
| >> Juan Porcar
| >> Len Edmondson
| >> Mark Rochkind
|
| See above
|
| >> Mike Tilson
| >> Olivier Roubine
| >> Peter Honeyman
|
| honey  (remember honeydanber?
|
| >> R. Dowell
| >> Ross Harvey
| >> Robert Toxen
| >> Tom Duff
|
| td
|
| >> Ted Dolotta
| >> T. J. Kowalski
|
| frodo
|
| >> Finally, I've summarized all contributions allocated through file path
| >> regular expressions [3] into two tables ordered by author [4].  (The
| >> summary is auto-generated by taking the last significant part of each
| >> path regex.) If you want, please have a look at them and point out
| >> omissions and mistakes.
| >>
| >> I will try to commit all responses I receive with appropriate credit to
| >> the repository.  (You can also submit a GitHub pull-request, if you prefer.)
| >>
| >> [1] https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo
| >> [2]
| >> http://www.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/pubs/conf/2015-MSR-Unix-History/html/Spi15c.pdf
| >> [3]
| >> https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-make/tree/master/src/author-path
| >> [4] http://istlab.dmst.aueb.gr/~dds/contributions.pdf
| >>
| >> Diomidis
| >> _______________________________________________
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| >> https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs

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[Clem Cole]

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On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 3:42 AM, Aharon Robbins <arnold at skeeve.com> wrote:

> | >> T. J. Kowalski
> |
> | frodo
> |
>
​Be careful - he used both frodo and tjk.   IIRC someone in the CS Dept was
using frodo when Ted first got to CMU.  He had the frodo login on the EE
machines, but used tjk for alot.   ​

I left before he did, so it's possible that when the Andrew project started
(and CMU started to try to unify accounts a little), Ted may have gotten
frodo across CMU.   But I was at UCB by then.  Anyway, if you look at
kernel code or utilities, you'll see a lot of marking in said code as tjk -
that is Ted and I was under impression Diomidis needs to list to attribute
who did what.

Clem
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[Larry McVoy]

> | >> Greg Chesson
> |
> | Can't remember whether it was grc or greg

For a long time he has been going by xtp@ and I'm positive he'd be happy
to be remembered that way.

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[John Cowan]

Aharon Robbins scripsit:

> | >> Greg Chesson
> |
> | Can't remember whether it was grc or greg

He was greg at atheros.com, so probably greg.  Unfortunately, he died last
January.  Google held a Greg Chesson Musical Memorial Celebration:
video at <http://vimow.com/us/watch/x327h06_Greg+Chesson+Memorial+Musical+Celebration+ at Google+Coffee+Lab>

-- 
John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
We do, doodley do, doodley do, doodley do,
What we must, muddily must, muddily must, muddily must;
Muddily do, muddily do, muddily do, muddily do,
Until we bust, bodily bust, bodily bust, bodily bust.  --Bokonon

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[Clem Cole]

+1

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:

> > | >> Greg Chesson
> > |
> > | Can't remember whether it was grc or greg
>
> For a long time he has been going by xtp@ and I'm positive he'd be happy
> to be remembered that way.
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[Mary Ann Horton]

I recall him at a Usenix conference giving his email address as 
research!greg at Berkeley, which made perfect sense to most people but was 
actually ambiguous.

On 09/25/2015 07:52 AM, John Cowan wrote:
> Aharon Robbins scripsit:
>
>> | >> Greg Chesson
>> |
>> | Can't remember whether it was grc or greg
> He was greg at atheros.com, so probably greg.  Unfortunately, he died last
> January.  Google held a Greg Chesson Musical Memorial Celebration:
> video at <http://vimow.com/us/watch/x327h06_Greg+Chesson+Memorial+Musical+Celebration+ at Google+Coffee+Lab>
>