From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 25634 invoked from network); 8 Apr 2022 22:32:12 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 8 Apr 2022 22:32:12 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id C79779D6F4; Sat, 9 Apr 2022 08:32:08 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CAE89D680; Sat, 9 Apr 2022 08:30:05 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 453939D680; Sat, 9 Apr 2022 08:29:21 +1000 (AEST) Received: from nsstlmta26p.bpe.bigpond.com (nsstlmta26p.bpe.bigpond.com [203.38.21.26]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 129809D665 for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2022 08:29:18 +1000 (AEST) Received: from smtp.telstra.com ([10.10.24.4]) by nsstlfep26p-svc.bpe.nexus.telstra.com.au with ESMTP id <20220408222916.NARK17881.nsstlfep26p-svc.bpe.nexus.telstra.com.au@smtp.telstra.com> for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2022 08:29:16 +1000 X-RG-Spam: Unknown X-RazorGate-Vade: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrgedvvddrudekuddgtdejucetufdoteggodetrfdotffvucfrrhhofhhilhgvmecuuffpveftpgfvgffnuffvtfetpdfqfgfvnecuuegrihhlohhuthemucegtddtnecunecujfgurhepfffhvffujgfkfhgfgggtsehmtddtredtreejnecuhfhrohhmpeffrghvvgcujfhorhhsfhgrlhhluceouggrvhgvsehhohhrshhfrghllhdrohhrgheqnecuggftrfgrthhtvghrnhepieegteeivdevfeffudekhfegleduveejkedtgfefudekhfekleelvdejheetfeefnecukfhppeduuddtrddugedurdduleefrddvfeefnecuvehluhhsthgvrhfuihiivgeptdenucfrrghrrghmpehhvghloheprghnvghurhhinhdrhhhorhhsfhgrlhhlrdhorhhgpdhinhgvthepuddutddrudeguddrudelfedrvdeffedpmhgrihhlfhhrohhmpegurghvvgeshhhorhhsfhgrlhhlrdhorhhgpdhnsggprhgtphhtthhopedupdhrtghpthhtohepthhuhhhssehtuhhhshdrohhrgh X-RazorGate-Vade-Verdict: clean 0 X-RazorGate-Vade-Classification: clean X-RG-VS-CLASS: clean Received: from aneurin.horsfall.org (110.141.193.233) by smtp.telstra.com (5.8.806) id 61BACA71172E83B7 for tuhs@tuhs.org; Sat, 9 Apr 2022 08:29:16 +1000 Received: from aneurin.horsfall.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aneurin.horsfall.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id 238MTFMZ093209 for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2022 08:29:15 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) Received: from localhost (dave@localhost) by aneurin.horsfall.org (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) with ESMTP id 238MTFQL093206 for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2022 08:29:15 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) X-Authentication-Warning: aneurin.horsfall.org: dave owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2022 08:29:15 +1000 (EST) From: Dave Horsfall To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.21.9999 (BSF 287 2018-06-16) X-GPG-Public-Key: http://www.horsfall.org/gpgkey.pub X-GPG-Fingerprint: 05B4 FFBC 0218 B438 66E0 587B EF46 7357 EF5E F58B X-Home-Page: http://www.horsfall.org/ X-Witty-Saying: "chmod 666 the_mode_of_the_beast" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="1483753691-1167347962-1649456955=:48016" Subject: Re: [TUHS] Sad News - we last two wonderful people in the past few weeks. X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --1483753691-1167347962-1649456955=:48016 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Fri, 8 Apr 2022, Clem Cole wrote: [...] > Also in other news, not Unix related, but PDP-11 and the computer > graphics world.  We lost Jack Burness a few weeks ago.  Jack was the > author of the original "Moonlander" for the PDP-11 with which many of us > wasted many hours trying to pick up "a Big Mac with fries" at "Mare > Assabet."  [Note: There was no WWW/Wikipedia in those days to find it, > but to look up Assabet River, so many people naively thought it was a > legitimate lunar landmark - its the River that the DEC Maynard bldg > sits]. He was a larger than life person [his joke's mailing list was a > whos-who of the computer industry - it was an honor to be on it]. We all > have a passel of stories about Jack.  I have written separately about > Jack a number of times and if you have never looked at the source to > Moonlander, you own it yourself to read it.   Remember he wrote it as a > throw-away demo for the GT-40 for trade show [his integer > transcendental funcs are quite instructive].   As one of the folks on > the Masscomp Alumni list put it, 'Jack was someone that just does not > deserve to die.' I have fond memories of playing it on the GT-40, and if Andrew Hume is reading this he'll remember reverse-engineering the code and modifying it for three-play operation; I think Peter Ivanov also implemented reverse gravity... Eventually DEC Field Circus stopped replacing GT-40 switch registers if they'd suspected that they were used for playing it :-) The GT-40 had a primitive loader; it was Craig McGregor of the CSU (UNSW) who used it to download an 8-bit loader for things like Lunar Lander (I only wrote a simple "Life" program for it, using the light-pen). -- Dave --1483753691-1167347962-1649456955=:48016--