[TUHS] Re: Robert Morris's UUCP

[George Michaelson <ggm@algebras.org>]

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I often repeat a throwaway sentence that UUCP was Lesk, building a bug fix
distribution mechanism.

Am I completely wrong? I am sure Mike said this to me mid 80s.

Not that subsequent codeword didn't happen.

G

On Thu, 16 Jan 2025, 2:24 am Norman Wilson, <norman@oclsc.org> wrote:

> Robert's uucp was in use in the Research world when I arrived
> in late summer of 1984.  It had an interesting and sensible
> structure; in particular uucico was split into two programs,
> ci and co.
>
> One of the first things I was asked to do when I got there was
> to get Honey Danber working as a replacement.  I don't remember
> why that was preferred; possibly just because Robert was a
> summer student, not a full-fledged member of the lab, and we
> didn't want something as important to us as uucp to rely on
> orphaned code.
>
> Honey Danber was in place by the time we made the V8 tape,
> toward the end of 1984.
>
> Norman Wilson
> Toronto ON
>

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