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From: Steve Johnson <scj@yaccman.com>
To: William Cheswick <ches@cheswick.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] buffer overflow (Re: Happy birthday Morris worm
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 10:04:29 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E11541B4-5A8C-4C51-A72A-1677E547C3F4@yaccman.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <977155D5-559B-4850-8D65-F0D6FA043A25@cheswick.com>

Not everyone at the labs had a three-letter login.  Bjarne Stroustrup had the login bs, despite several gentle suggestions from myself and others that he add a middle initial...
Steve

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> On Nov 21, 2019, at 5:18 AM, William Cheswick <ches@cheswick.com> wrote:
> 
> BTW, Bob Morris was not a Senior, and had no middle name.  It is my understanding that he inserted an “h” when a middle initial was demanded at the Labs, hence “rhm”.
> 
> His son is Robert Tappan Morris, Labs login and general tag “rtm," is not a junior.
> 
> (I had to fight spelling correction on this Mac so much for this post that I have turned it off.)
> 
>> On Nov 12, 2019, at 8:43 PM, John P. Linderman <jpl.jpl@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Lorinda Cherry told me that that RTM (senior) used to test people's programs by feeding them to themselves as input, a.out < a.out. It helped cure people of the assumption that a program would only see "reasonable" inputs.
> 


  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-21 18:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-12 22:39 Norman Wilson
2019-11-13  1:43 ` John P. Linderman
2019-11-21 13:10   ` William Cheswick
2019-11-21 18:04     ` Steve Johnson [this message]
2019-11-21 21:51       ` John P. Linderman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-11-12 20:56 [TUHS] " Norman Wilson
2019-11-12 22:10 ` [TUHS] buffer overflow (Re: " Bakul Shah
2019-11-12 22:14   ` Larry McVoy
2019-11-12 22:41     ` Robert Clausecker
2019-11-12 22:49       ` Arthur Krewat
2019-11-12 23:45       ` Jon Steinhart
2019-11-13  0:38         ` Warren Toomey
2019-11-13  1:09         ` Arthur Krewat
2019-11-13  0:24       ` Larry McVoy
2019-11-12 22:54   ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-12 23:22     ` Warner Losh
2019-11-12 23:27       ` Arthur Krewat
     [not found]     ` <alpine.DEB.2.20.1911191443530.10845@grey.csi.cam.ac.uk>
2019-11-21 20:02       ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-21 20:38         ` Warner Losh
2019-11-21 21:04           ` Clem Cole
2019-11-21 22:06           ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-21 21:48         ` Steffen Nurpmeso

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