Re: [TUHS] Crabs

Re: [TUHS] Crabs

[Lawrence Stewart]

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

Re: [TUHS] Crabs

[Dave Horsfall]

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

Re: [TUHS] Crabs

[Finn O'Leary]

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

Re: [TUHS] Crabs

[Dave Horsfall]

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

[TUHS] Crabs

[Warren Toomey]

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

Re: [TUHS] Crabs

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

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)

Re: [TUHS] Crabs

[Dave Horsfall]

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

Re: [TUHS] Crabs

[Rodrigo G. López]

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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

[Dave Horsfall]

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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

Re: [TUHS] Crabs

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

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.

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--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)

Re: [TUHS] Crabs

[Dave Horsfall]

> 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

Re: [TUHS] Crabs

[Bakul Shah]

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.

Re: [TUHS] Crabs

[Dave Horsfall]

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