From: George Michaelson <ggm@algebras.org>
To: M Douglas McIlroy <m.douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Surprised about Unix System V in the 80's - so sparse!
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 09:22:42 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKr6gn3qmQ8sk6Bb63i4_9QO66QXhNCOK8n+tukYvq8tpobMNg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKH6PiVA5DMaEzFQj3LOtgH=2vUJ39s_fcQb257iddLsz2a_-A@mail.gmail.com>
I often think about Quartermains book "the matrix" and also Carl
Malamud's time couch-surfing his contact list.
Both of them were very much "of their time" -you wouldn't need to
write "the matrix" now, because convergence has taken care of many of
the meta-net issues Quartermain talked about.
Carls problem on the other hand, just got monetised into AirBNB
On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 9:19 AM M Douglas McIlroy
<m.douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu> wrote:
>
> Connectivity evolved rapidly in the early 1980s. In 1980 I served on the
> board of CSNet, which connected have-not CS departments (including Bell
> Labs) via dialup and X.25 links onto the periphery of the magic circle
> of Arpanet.
> By 1982 it was not extraordinary that I could via international email arrange
> all aspects of a trip to visit lively universities of the AUUG.
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2021-03-17 23:18 M Douglas McIlroy
2021-03-17 23:22 ` George Michaelson [this message]
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2021-03-17 20:33 Josh Good
2021-03-17 20:57 ` Adam Thornton
2021-03-17 21:04 ` Al Kossow
2021-03-17 21:38 ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-17 21:08 ` Jim Capp
2021-03-17 21:26 ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-17 21:29 ` Henry Bent
2021-03-17 21:40 ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-17 21:42 ` Henry Bent
2021-03-18 5:10 ` Wesley Parish
2021-03-18 23:05 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
2021-03-19 1:45 ` Richard Salz
2021-03-19 2:01 ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-19 2:06 ` Chris Torek
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