From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [IPv6:2600:3c01:e000:146::1]) by inbox.vuxu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2482F28D5F for ; Thu, 4 Jul 2024 03:37:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A8044331E; Thu, 4 Jul 2024 11:37:04 +1000 (AEST) Received: from lechuck.jsg.id.au (jsg.id.au [193.114.144.202]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F2A5E4331C for ; Thu, 4 Jul 2024 11:36:57 +1000 (AEST) Received: from largo.jsg.id.au (largo.jsg.id.au [192.168.1.43]) by lechuck.jsg.id.au (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPS id 44eaf31a (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256:NO); Thu, 4 Jul 2024 11:36:55 +1000 (AEST) Received: from localhost (largo.jsg.id.au [local]) by largo.jsg.id.au (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPA id 74aafaf4; Thu, 4 Jul 2024 11:36:55 +1000 (AEST) Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2024 11:36:55 +1000 From: Jonathan Gray To: Tom Lyon Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Message-ID-Hash: B7KN5WXA6WIXSSWJDP3THKQ4R5BN6PDN X-Message-ID-Hash: B7KN5WXA6WIXSSWJDP3THKQ4R5BN6PDN X-MailFrom: jsg@jsg.id.au X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-tuhs.tuhs.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: tuhs@tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: Lions book reprint by Bell Labs List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: 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. >