From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] ACM Fellow, Ken Thompson
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2021 15:59:25 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2101141549020.26789@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+E3k92c+M5tH2ht+ZUpd6BE9OS_ZW_-QsZrrBCcEJQ+X4bmQg@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 13 Jan 2021, Royce Williams wrote:
> Congratulations to Ken Thompson, the newly-minted ACM Fellow:
>
> https://awards.acm.org/award_winners/thompson_4588371
> (It seemed of historical interest, and therefore on-topic. :) )
Congratubloodylations, as we say down-under; it is well-deserved.
Without Unix I'd probably still be supporting RSX-11 and VMS etc; their
foray into Unix (Eunice) was doomed.
An exchange with my then boss:
Me: "Eunice makes VMS look civilised".
He: "You mean it looks like Unix".
Me: "That's what I said".
As you can imagine the conversation went downhill from there :-)
-- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-14 5:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-13 23:41 Royce Williams
2021-01-13 23:44 ` Deborah K Scherrer
2021-01-14 4:59 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2021-01-14 7:12 ` Robert Brockway
2021-01-14 22:35 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-01-14 22:22 ` John Cowan
2021-01-15 20:14 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-01-15 22:17 ` John Cowan
2021-01-16 2:29 ` Warner Losh
2021-01-19 22:29 ` Heinz Lycklama
2021-01-19 22:33 ` Warner Losh
2021-01-20 5:21 ` Heinz Lycklama
2021-01-17 22:19 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-01-14 9:50 ` Thomas Paulsen
2021-01-14 13:21 ` Jim Capp
2021-01-14 15:19 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-01-14 21:27 ` Ken Thompson
2021-01-14 22:57 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-01-14 14:20 ` Niklas Karlsson
2021-01-15 4:26 ` Ed Bradford
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