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From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
To: Henry Bent <henry.r.bent@gmail.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Ratfor revived!
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2021 11:30:35 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAD2gp_REhHvi=o7WVoyvQFAGk1gMBmd9mkoHKG3T_v6s6X+yrA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEdTPBe3QYkOjmRcrO_Li2EHhNn6aY=ZtnmgFicWxtdNhSO2gw@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, Dec 2, 2021 at 12:45 AM Henry Bent <henry.r.bent@gmail.com> wrote:


> The Byte article (the scan of which I am very grateful for; not having to
> go trawling through the stacks at the Oberlin College library is always a
> plus) claims that the tools have been implemented on:
>
> Tandem
>

That would be me; at least I registered it with Addison-Wesley, although
someone else may have implemented it independently.  I also wrote a shell
that took advantage of Guardian-style IPC, using a per-user pipe server
that connected up all the monodirectional pipes through itself.  Its prompt
was ::, which the documentation referred to as the quadpoint prompt.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-12-02 16:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-01 20:23 Arnold Robbins
2021-12-01 20:57 ` John Cowan
2021-12-01 20:59 ` Clem Cole
2021-12-01 21:14   ` Deborah Scherrer
2021-12-01 22:23     ` Henry Bent
2021-12-02  0:34       ` Clem Cole
2021-12-02  5:44         ` Henry Bent
2021-12-02 14:15           ` Clem Cole
2021-12-02 14:35             ` Brantley Coile
2021-12-02 14:49             ` arnold
2021-12-02 16:30           ` John Cowan [this message]
2021-12-01 22:43     ` Brantley Coile
2021-12-02  7:41     ` arnold
2021-12-02 18:34       ` Deborah Scherrer
2021-12-01 21:24   ` Thomas Paulsen
2021-12-02  7:34   ` arnold

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