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From: Jonathan Gray <jsg@jsg.id.au>
To: Tom Lyon <pugs78@gmail.com>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Lions book reprint by Bell Labs
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2024 11:36:55 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZoX8t1-Y1rbq55bK@largo.jsg.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZoX0F6LEaZa0a5BC@largo.jsg.id.au>

On Thu, Jul 04, 2024 at 11:00:07AM +1000, Jonathan Gray wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 03, 2024 at 05:03:42PM -0700, Tom Lyon wrote:
> > The fabulous Dr. Honeyman made a gift to me of his Lions' books which were
> > printed by Bell Labs.  Does anyone know WHEN that happened or WHO made it
> > happen?
> > 
> > I figure it must have been at least 1 year and maybe 2 after Lions'
> > originals.
> 
> "One night in 1978 John received a telephone call from
> Doug McIlroy at Bell Laboratories saying that they would like to
> assume responsibility for distributing the notes".
> 
> Berny Goodheart, in the back of the peer-to-peer version,
> "About the author".

also in
tuhs Documentation/AUUGN/AUUGN-V16.5.pdf p 15

"One night (sometime in 1978?), I had a phone call from
Doug McIlroy saying BTL would like to assume responsibility for
distributing these documents, and would I agree? I did. It saved
me much work."

> 
> change in distribution was mentioned by John Lions in
> ;login: March 1978
> https://archive.org/details/login_march-1978/page/n1/mode/2up
> 
> > 
> > See Images:
> > https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BIs3Qsihp6nI2iX1Ax3fNU-OFv5dfy0O/view?usp=sharing
> > https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LoQUl8ND7D18z1W5I3NF-QwIvDkfXk0t/view?usp=drive_link
> > https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xg4TAJNAp5h8FljulJh9Zh0nzFy-YWda/view?usp=sharing
> > https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u--blfYu5Iuzpc-qiwCGNq0p6u1DgucR/view?usp=sharing
> > 
> > ps.  *I* have no problem spelling Lions' name.  A problem *with* the
> > spelling, perhaps.
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2024-07-04  1:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-07-04  0:03 [TUHS] " Tom Lyon
2024-07-04  1:00 ` [TUHS] " Jonathan Gray
2024-07-04  1:36   ` Jonathan Gray [this message]
2024-07-05  1:13 ` Jonathan Gray

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