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From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] who is "Veigh S. Meer"?
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 07:04:47 +1000 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1507170701060.92212@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ec16a26dcf14cac3dd24f7ec6da6e1a5.squirrel@www.ccil.org>

On Thu, 16 Jul 2015, John Cowan wrote:

> The punning pseudonym, the complaint at the end that Unix and C are dead 
> and nothing is even on the horizon to replace them, and the general 
> snarky tone suggest to me that it's Rob "Mark V. Shaney" Pike.  In that 
> case, the affiliation with Bellcore is a blind ("not Goodyear, 
> Goodrich").

Call me slow, but can someone please explain the joke?  If it's American 
humo[u]r, then remember that I'm British/Australian...

(Yes, I'm familiar with Mark V. Shaney, and have even used it.)

-- 
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer"
   "The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of
roughly a factor of two per year." -- G.Moore, Electronics, Vol 38 No 8, 1965



  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-07-16 21:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-16 15:48 Deborah Scherrer
2015-07-16 20:17 ` John Cowan
2015-07-16 20:27   ` Deborah Scherrer
2015-07-16 21:04   ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2015-07-16 21:15     ` John Cowan
2015-07-16 23:31     ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2015-07-17  5:25     ` Dave Horsfall
2015-07-16 22:21 Norman Wilson
2015-07-16 22:29 ` John Cowan
2015-07-21  1:18 Doug McIlroy

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