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From: ggm@algebras.org (George Michaelson)
Subject: [TUHS] Charles Forsyth on putting Unix on a diet.
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 08:07:29 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKr6gn2PwwUU2oM_C+ABXySEOYeb2_OXa0S7dYav6WHt3KeN7Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201710261457.v9QEvmqr013778@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU>

wish I hadn't read "Norman Wilson" as "Norman Wisdom" (british
prat-fall comedian in the style of Jerry Lewis)

On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 12:57 AM, Doug McIlroy <doug at cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> As an admirer of minimalism, who has given talks that extol
> Norman Wilson's streamlining of research Unix, I naturally
> like Forsythe's thesis.


  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-26 22:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-26 14:57 Doug McIlroy
2017-10-26 22:07 ` George Michaelson [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-10-28 13:11 Norman Wilson
2017-10-27 21:30 Norman Wilson
2017-10-27 22:49 ` Chris Torek
2017-10-27 10:36 Noel Chiappa
2017-10-27 13:03 ` Clem Cole
2017-10-27 13:23   ` Steve Nickolas
2017-10-27 21:51     ` Andy Kosela
2017-10-27 23:04       ` Larry McVoy
2017-10-27 23:15         ` Steve Simon
2017-10-27 23:39           ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-10-28  2:00       ` Bakul Shah
2017-10-28  2:34         ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-10-28  2:42           ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-10-28  6:38           ` Bakul Shah
2017-10-27 21:43   ` Dave Horsfall
2017-10-25  2:51 Dan Cross
2017-10-25  3:14 ` Larry McVoy
2017-10-26 17:27 ` Larry McVoy
2017-10-26 22:12   ` George Michaelson
2017-10-27  3:49     ` Steve Nickolas
2017-10-27  6:55       ` arnold
2017-10-27  7:30   ` Derek Fawcus
2017-10-27  9:44     ` David Arnold

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