From: scj@yaccman.com (scj@yaccman.com)
Subject: [TUHS] Of login names
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2016 21:06:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9a8ab85cdfb2b6ad42477ff146f10538.squirrel@webmail.yaccman.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160717230903.GK78278@eureka.lemis.com>
My login name story has many fewer characters. At Bell Labs, it was
common for people to use their initials as their login name. Dennis was
dmr, I was scj, Mike Lesk was mel, etc. (Ken was an exception--he was
ken). When Bjarne Stroustrup joined the company, he chose the login name
bs. Several of us tried to tactfully suggest that this might not be the
best choice, but he stuck with it...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-18 4:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-17 12:05 Norman Wilson
2016-07-17 12:32 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-07-17 23:09 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-18 4:06 ` scj [this message]
2016-07-18 4:09 ` Larry McVoy
2016-07-18 10:42 ` William Cheswick
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2016-07-18 15:44 Doug McIlroy
2016-07-18 15:50 ` Joerg Schilling
2016-07-18 18:03 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-07-18 18:12 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-07-18 14:35 Norman Wilson
2016-07-18 14:44 ` Mary Ann Horton
2016-07-18 14:55 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-07-18 18:07 ` Steve Simon
2016-07-19 9:50 ` Tony Finch
2016-07-26 12:45 ` Tim Bradshaw
2016-07-26 13:07 ` George Ross
[not found] <mailman.79.1468802270.30583.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2016-07-18 14:06 ` David
2016-07-19 12:41 ` Aaron Jackson
2016-10-19 20:53 ` Michael-John Turner
2016-10-19 22:35 ` Aaron Jackson
2016-07-17 8:06 Rudi Blom
2016-07-17 8:16 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-17 11:42 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-07-17 22:59 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-18 0:37 ` Brantley Coile
2016-07-18 10:51 ` William Cheswick
2016-07-16 16:54 Dave Horsfall
2016-07-16 23:04 ` Paul Osborne
2016-07-18 12:24 ` Tony Finch
2016-07-18 13:21 ` John Cowan
2016-07-17 2:56 ` Win Treese
2016-07-17 6:39 ` Tim Bradshaw
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