From: Marc Donner <marc.donner@gmail.com>
To: Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Robert Morris's UUCP
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 14:29:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALQ0xCCVxxC3p7xoiG6zyKfjH6dMmj43B9_bi7jcpfFpqGYaVQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKH6PiX0MdMLF9KjQDUSbQbnq_opdzdnkMatU9NE3vD4itBKXQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Michael has explained his authorship of UUCP as a stop gap. The networking
team was building the real solution and it was due in three weeks. So he
wrote UUCP to fill in until the official solution arrived.
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nygeek.net
mindthegapdialogs.com/home <https://www.mindthegapdialogs.com/home>
On Thu, Jan 16, 2025 at 11:05 AM Douglas McIlroy <
douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> That was an important motivating factor, but Mike also had an
> unerring anticipatory sense of public "need". Thus his programs
> spread like wildfire despite their bugs. UUCP itself is the premier
> example. Its popularity impelled its inclusion in v7 despite its
> woeful disregard for security.
>
> > Does anyone have [Robert Morris's UUCP CSTR]? Doug?
>
> Not I.
>
> Doug
>
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-01-16 16:04 [TUHS] " Douglas McIlroy
2025-01-16 16:07 ` [TUHS] " arnold
2025-01-16 19:29 ` Marc Donner [this message]
2025-01-16 20:53 ` Alexander Schreiber
2025-01-17 1:35 ` Aaron
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2025-01-15 16:24 Norman Wilson
2025-01-16 6:42 ` George Michaelson
2025-01-15 15:31 [TUHS] " arnold
2025-01-15 15:51 ` [TUHS] " Chet Ramey via TUHS
2025-01-16 7:52 ` arnold
2025-01-16 16:39 ` Chet Ramey via TUHS
2025-01-16 16:47 ` Chet Ramey via TUHS
2025-01-16 19:48 ` Warren Toomey via TUHS
2025-01-16 16:50 ` Dan Cross
2025-01-16 16:54 ` Chet Ramey via TUHS
2025-01-16 19:15 ` arnold
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