From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 07:04:47 +1000 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] who is "Veigh S. Meer"? In-Reply-To: References: <55A7D25F.3050907@solar.stanford.edu> Message-ID: 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