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.
>
next prev parent 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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