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From: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
To: Doug McIlroy <doug@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] A Dennisism
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2020 16:49:59 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC20D2MH0O_H=B-K1s=2KN1uYkDLj10uHttUkaK43rFUUTWoXg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202001262122.00QLM3vu070742@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU>

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+1

Doug, you made my day.

On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 4:22 PM Doug McIlroy <doug@cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:

> The anecdote below came from Nils-Peter Nelson, who as a
> manager in the computer center bought and installed the
> Labs' biggest Unix machine, a Cray 2. He also originated
> the string.h package.
>
> Doug
>
> Dennis told me he was going to a class reunion at Harvard.
>
> Me: "I guess you're the most famous member of your class."
> dmr: "No, the Unabomber is.
>

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      reply	other threads:[~2020-01-26 21:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-26 21:22 Doug McIlroy
2020-01-26 21:49 ` Clem Cole [this message]

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