From: Adam Thornton <athornton@gmail.com>
To: "wojciech@koszek.com" <wojciech@koszek.com>
Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Richard Stevens
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2021 19:23:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP2nic2mDRmvMAM_qKvSuo5xtL4+EJncg_t2+Z2Gw5euooxm5g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C987CE3D-3A24-4BEC-B758-E83EB208C2FA@koszek.com>
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The Richard Stevens books were huge here. I did not know him well but
emailed with him a few times in the year before he died. I never met him
in person but he was very kind to a much younger and more ignorant me.
On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 7:21 PM wojciech@koszek.com <wojciech@koszek.com>
wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm Wojciech Adam Koszek and I'm a new member here. After a short stint
> with Red Hat 6.0 and Slackware Linux around 2000-2001 (I think it was
> Slackware 7.0 or 7.1) my journey with UNIX started with FreeBSD 4.5. I fell
> in love with BSD and through Warner Losh, Robert Watson, and folks from a
> Polish UNIX scene, I became hooked. I ended up working with FreeBSD for the
> following 15 years or so.
>
> Anyway: the volume of the UNIX literature back then in Poland was scarce,
> yet through a small bookstore and a friendly salesman I got myself a "UNIX
> Network Programming Volume 1" at a huge discount, and read it back-to-back.
>
> Looking back, his books had a huge impact on my life (I had all his books,
> and read everything line by line, with a slight exception of TCP/IP
> illustrated vol 2, which I used as a reference), and while Stevens's
> website sheds some light on what he did, I often wonder what is the story
> behind how his books came to be. It doesn't help he appeared a very private
> person--never have I seen a photo of him anywhere.
>
> What was the reception of his books in the US?
>
> Did you know him? Do you know any more details about what he did after
> 1990?
>
> Thanks and take care,
>
> Wojciech Adam Koszek
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-08 2:05 wojciech
2021-03-08 2:23 ` Adam Thornton [this message]
2021-03-08 2:37 ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-08 20:46 ` joe mcguckin
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