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* [TUHS] Crabs
@ 2020-02-21 21:29 Warren Toomey
  2020-02-21 22:43 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
  2020-02-22  0:01 ` Dave Horsfall
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 13+ messages in thread
From: Warren Toomey @ 2020-02-21 21:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: tuhs

Just saw this in a tweet by Charlie Stross:

How AT&T's Bell Labs became infected with crabs (in 1985):

http://lucacardelli.name/Papers/Crabs.pdf

Cheers, Warren

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* Re: [TUHS] Crabs
  2020-02-21 21:29 [TUHS] Crabs Warren Toomey
@ 2020-02-21 22:43 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
  2020-02-22  0:01 ` Dave Horsfall
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 13+ messages in thread
From: Steffen Nurpmeso @ 2020-02-21 22:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Warren Toomey; +Cc: tuhs

Warren Toomey wrote in
<20200221212906.GA12694@minnie.tuhs.org>:
 |Just saw this in a tweet by Charlie Stross:
 |
 |How AT&T's Bell Labs became infected with crabs (in 1985):
 |
 |http://lucacardelli.name/Papers/Crabs.pdf

Money for nothing, and your crabs for free.

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)

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* Re: [TUHS] Crabs
  2020-02-21 21:29 [TUHS] Crabs Warren Toomey
  2020-02-21 22:43 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
@ 2020-02-22  0:01 ` Dave Horsfall
  2020-02-22  8:04   ` Rodrigo G. López
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 13+ messages in thread
From: Dave Horsfall @ 2020-02-22  0:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society

On Sat, 22 Feb 2020, Warren Toomey wrote:

> http://lucacardelli.name/Papers/Crabs.pdf

Sheer genius in its simplicity of implementation!  For some reason I am 
reminded of "xroach": I used to surprise my cow-orkers with it...

-- Dave

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* Re: [TUHS] Crabs
  2020-02-22  0:01 ` Dave Horsfall
@ 2020-02-22  8:04   ` Rodrigo G. López
  2020-02-22 20:34     ` Dave Horsfall
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 13+ messages in thread
From: Rodrigo G. López @ 2020-02-22  8:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: tuhs

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here is the source for a working plan 9 version:
http://www.9front.org/extra/crabs.tgz

fun to watch.

On Sat, Feb 22, 2020, 1:02 AM Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 22 Feb 2020, Warren Toomey wrote:
>
> > http://lucacardelli.name/Papers/Crabs.pdf
>
> Sheer genius in its simplicity of implementation!  For some reason I am
> reminded of "xroach": I used to surprise my cow-orkers with it...
>
> -- Dave
>

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* Re: [TUHS] Crabs
  2020-02-22  8:04   ` Rodrigo G. López
@ 2020-02-22 20:34     ` Dave Horsfall
  2020-02-22 22:07       ` Steffen Nurpmeso
                         ` (2 more replies)
  0 siblings, 3 replies; 13+ messages in thread
From: Dave Horsfall @ 2020-02-22 20:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society

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On Sat, 22 Feb 2020, Rodrigo G. López wrote:

> here is the source for a working plan 9 version:
> http://www.9front.org/extra/crabs.tgz
> fun to watch.

Thanks; I don't have Plan 9, but the source ought to be interesting.

-- Dave

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* Re: [TUHS] Crabs
  2020-02-22 20:34     ` Dave Horsfall
@ 2020-02-22 22:07       ` Steffen Nurpmeso
  2020-02-22 22:10       ` Dave Horsfall
  2020-02-22 22:12       ` Bakul Shah
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 13+ messages in thread
From: Steffen Nurpmeso @ 2020-02-22 22:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society

Dave Horsfall wrote in
<alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2002230733530.1121@aneurin.horsfall.org>:
 |On Sat, 22 Feb 2020, Rodrigo G. López wrote:
 |
 |> here is the source for a working plan 9 version:
 |> http://www.9front.org/extra/crabs.tgz
 |> fun to watch.
 |
 |Thanks; I don't have Plan 9, but the source ought to be interesting.

I'm on Fire Time after Time, Easy Lover, Born in the U.S.A.!
I Want to Know What Love Is, Like a Virgin.  Careless Whisper On
the Nightshift.  We Built This City Part-Time Lover.
Boys Of Summer Things Can Only Get Better.
Walking On Sunshine We Don't Need Another Hero!

You're the Inspiration.

Too Late for Goodbyes.

Don't Lose My Number.

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)

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* Re: [TUHS] Crabs
  2020-02-22 20:34     ` Dave Horsfall
  2020-02-22 22:07       ` Steffen Nurpmeso
@ 2020-02-22 22:10       ` Dave Horsfall
  2020-02-22 22:12       ` Bakul Shah
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 13+ messages in thread
From: Dave Horsfall @ 2020-02-22 22:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society

> Thanks; I don't have Plan 9, but the source ought to be interesting.

And the source is amazingly simple; mind you, most of the work is done by 
the libraries.

-- Dave

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* Re: [TUHS] Crabs
  2020-02-22 20:34     ` Dave Horsfall
  2020-02-22 22:07       ` Steffen Nurpmeso
  2020-02-22 22:10       ` Dave Horsfall
@ 2020-02-22 22:12       ` Bakul Shah
  2020-02-23 19:13         ` Dave Horsfall
  2 siblings, 1 reply; 13+ messages in thread
From: Bakul Shah @ 2020-02-22 22:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Dave Horsfall; +Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society

On Sun, 23 Feb 2020 07:34:44 +1100 Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 22 Feb 2020, Rodrigo G. López wrote:
>
> > here is the source for a working plan 9 version:
> > http://www.9front.org/extra/crabs.tgz
> > fun to watch.
>
> Thanks; I don't have Plan 9, but the source ought to be interesting.

You can run it under plan9ports.

git clone https://github.com/9fans/plan9port.git
cd plan9ports
./INSTALL
# You may have to setenv PLAN9 to the above dir. I am not sure.

tar xf crabs.tgz
cd crabs

# fix an unnamed parameter
ed crabs.c <<EOF
/main/s/int/int argc/
wq
EOF

9c crabs.c
9l crabs.o
a.out

This will be about as exciting sa watching ants move about on
a white wall. May be less.

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* Re: [TUHS] Crabs
  2020-02-22 22:12       ` Bakul Shah
@ 2020-02-23 19:13         ` Dave Horsfall
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 13+ messages in thread
From: Dave Horsfall @ 2020-02-23 19:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society

On Sat, 22 Feb 2020, Bakul Shah wrote:

>> Thanks; I don't have Plan 9, but the source ought to be interesting.
>
> You can run it under plan9ports.

[...]

Thanks for the pointer.

-- Dave

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* Re: [TUHS] Crabs
  2020-02-24  3:54   ` Finn O'Leary
@ 2020-02-24 22:28     ` Dave Horsfall
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 13+ messages in thread
From: Dave Horsfall @ 2020-02-24 22:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society

On Mon, 24 Feb 2020, Finn O'Leary wrote:

>> There were lots of similar programs springing up around that time,
>> such as "xoj" (modelled after the famous O.J. Simpson car chase) etc.
>
> A version of this that still compiles on modern systems can be found here :)
> http://www.daidouji.com/oneko/
>
> It has a couple of settings to change the icons to various different 
> characters

Thanks!

-- Dave

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* Re: [TUHS] Crabs
  2020-02-23 22:43 ` Dave Horsfall
@ 2020-02-24  3:54   ` Finn O'Leary
  2020-02-24 22:28     ` Dave Horsfall
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 13+ messages in thread
From: Finn O'Leary @ 2020-02-24  3:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: tuhs

On 2020-02-23 22:43, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Feb 2020, Lawrence Stewart wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>> This later evolved into xneko for X Windows.
> 
> There were lots of similar programs springing up around that time,
> such as "xoj" (modelled after the famous O.J. Simpson car chase) etc.
> 
> -- Dave

A version of this that still compiles on modern systems can be found 
here :)
http://www.daidouji.com/oneko/

It has a couple of settings to change the icons to various different 
characters

- finn

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* Re: [TUHS] Crabs
  2020-02-23 22:13 Lawrence Stewart
@ 2020-02-23 22:43 ` Dave Horsfall
  2020-02-24  3:54   ` Finn O'Leary
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 13+ messages in thread
From: Dave Horsfall @ 2020-02-23 22:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society

On Sun, 23 Feb 2020, Lawrence Stewart wrote:

[...]

> This later evolved into xneko for X Windows.

There were lots of similar programs springing up around that time, such as 
"xoj" (modelled after the famous O.J. Simpson car chase) etc.

-- Dave

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* Re: [TUHS] Crabs
@ 2020-02-23 22:13 Lawrence Stewart
  2020-02-23 22:43 ` Dave Horsfall
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 13+ messages in thread
From: Lawrence Stewart @ 2020-02-23 22:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: TUHS main list

This explains something, I think!

Luca Cardelli and Mark Manasse later worked at the Digital Systems Research Center in Palo Alto, which was formed in 1984 after PARC fired Bob Taylor.

Mark helped write the window system we used, and at some point a cat appeared, which would sleep until you moved the mouse and then come over to pat at the mouse.

My impression was that Luca wrote it, be he was cagy about it.

This later evolved into xneko for X Windows.

-Larry


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2020-02-22 20:34     ` Dave Horsfall
2020-02-22 22:07       ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-02-22 22:10       ` Dave Horsfall
2020-02-22 22:12       ` Bakul Shah
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