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From: ron@ronnatalie.com (Ronald Natalie)
Subject: [TUHS] etymology of cron
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 15:02:42 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5A836AE5-685A-4071-B7F5-3AF7DC7769C4@ronnatalie.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.NEB.2.11.1601131323570.10673@t1.m.reedmedia.net>

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Alas, Mike was a tale teller and pretty good at it.   It’s not surprising (to me) that there may be some inconsistencies to his stories (especially when recounted in informal settings).

I remember the Norway meeting.    Mike actually wanted to send me in his place.   The reason he was invited was that at the time he was maintaining an e-mail journal called the TCP-IP-DIGEST.    Even though he’d pretty much delegated the IP stuff over to me (he had a ton of irons in the fire:   high performance computing, computer graphics, etc..>), the powers that be decided that they didn’t want a substitute.   The outgrowth of that meeting was that the a new GADS (Gateway Architecture and Data Structures) under Dave Mills’s leadership would form which I attended until they morphed it into the IETF (which technically had its first meeting at the GADS meeting it was formed though I hosted the first REAL meeting at BRL shortly thereafter).

The bugs that you posted aren’t the ones I was referring to.    This may indeed be when Mike offered UCB the ping source, but I’m fairly sure my story of the original version is accurate.    We needed at least a rudimentary ping to verify the system after Louis Mamakos crashed us trying to ping us.    I do know Mike made a number of mods over time to set sizes, etc… but the basic functionality of sending a ping once a second and waiting asynchronously for the responses was there from the start.

Another program called ttcp that he wrote never got immensely popular but we used it for throughput testing as well.
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Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2015-12-25 18:41 ` David
2015-12-25 20:46   ` Marc Rochkind
2015-12-25 22:22   ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-01-02 19:56     ` Marc Rochkind
2016-01-02 21:06       ` Clem Cole
2016-01-02 22:22       ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-01-03  1:26         ` Ronald Natalie
2016-01-03 10:30           ` Jacob Goense
2016-01-03 15:32             ` Ronald Natalie
2016-01-03 18:00               ` John Cowan
2016-01-03 12:10           ` Jacob Goense
2016-01-03 15:22             ` Ronald Natalie
2016-01-13 19:48               ` Jeremy C. Reed
2016-01-13 20:02                 ` Ronald Natalie [this message]
2016-01-04  2:26           ` Kurt H Maier
2016-01-13 20:31 Noel Chiappa
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2016-01-03 14:26 Noel Chiappa
2016-01-02 23:14 Norman Wilson
2016-01-02 23:18 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2015-12-23 17:19 Norman Wilson
2015-12-23 19:04 ` John Cowan
2015-12-23 19:41 ` SZIGETI Szabolcs
     [not found] <mailman.20.1450886678.3292.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2015-12-23 17:09 ` Johnny Billquist
2015-12-23 14:38 Noel Chiappa
2015-12-23 18:58 ` John Cowan
2015-12-23 13:36 Norman Wilson
2015-12-23 13:53 ` Clem Cole
2015-12-24 15:01   ` Clem Cole
2015-12-24 15:17     ` John Cowan
2015-12-24 23:05       ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2015-12-25  0:52         ` scj
2015-12-25  1:05           ` Larry McVoy
2015-12-25  2:07             ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2015-12-25  2:28               ` Dave Horsfall
2015-12-25 16:21           ` Marc Rochkind
2015-12-23 16:04 ` John Cowan
2015-12-23 23:49 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2015-12-23 13:30 Norman Wilson
2015-12-23  1:44 Norman Wilson
2015-12-23  2:07 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2015-12-23  2:19   ` Milo Velimirovic
2015-12-23  2:27     ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2015-12-23  2:36       ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2015-12-23  4:53 ` Larry McVoy
2015-12-23 13:45   ` Clem Cole
2015-12-23  0:27 Doug McIlroy
2015-12-23  0:40 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2015-12-23  1:11   ` John Cowan
2015-12-23  1:59     ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2015-12-23  2:01       ` David Ryskalczyk
2015-12-23  2:14         ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2015-12-23  2:32           ` jason-tuhs
2015-12-23  2:44             ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2015-12-23  2:59             ` John Cowan
2015-12-23  4:05               ` Random832
2015-12-23  4:27                 ` John Cowan
2015-12-23  0:46 ` Warren Toomey
2015-12-23  6:47 ` Dave Horsfall

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