From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 49bd812a for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2018 18:37:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 0C70AA1B1D; Fri, 29 Jun 2018 04:37:35 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81CC6A1B0B; Fri, 29 Jun 2018 04:37:06 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id C4C39A1B0B; Fri, 29 Jun 2018 04:37:03 +1000 (AEST) Received: from neener.bl.org (neener.bl.org [50.116.26.109]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61F27A1B0A for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2018 04:37:00 +1000 (AEST) Received: from neener.bl.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by neener.bl.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id w5SIaxdc015005 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2018 13:36:59 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (mparson@localhost) by neener.bl.org (8.15.2/8.12.8/Submit) with ESMTP id w5SIaxeq011308 for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2018 13:36:59 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: neener.bl.org: mparson owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 13:36:59 -0500 (CDT) From: Michael Parson To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org In-Reply-To: <201806280557.w5S5vESf027039@freefriends.org> Message-ID: References: <20180625161016.C16BA18C082@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> <3950d997-d310-7cfc-30bf-237e9d872739@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> <1D3E6798-6370-4C7C-98F9-3399AA88C76E@ccc.com> <201806280557.w5S5vESf027039@freefriends.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (NEB 67 2015-01-07) X-Marks-The-Spot: --->X MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (neener.bl.org [127.0.0.1]); Thu, 28 Jun 2018 13:37:00 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: [TUHS] off-topic list X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 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" On Wed, 27 Jun 2018, arnold@skeeve.com wrote: > Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 23:57:14 -0600 > From: arnold@skeeve.com > To: mparson@bl.org, clemc@ccc.com > Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org > Subject: Re: [TUHS] off-topic list > > Clem cole wrote: > >> Makes sense. >> >> Sent from my PDP-7 Running UNIX V0 expect things to be almost but not quite. >> >>> On Jun 27, 2018, at 5:33 PM, Michael Parson wrote: >>> >>>> On Tue, 26 Jun 2018, Clem Cole wrote: >>>> >>>> Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 17:16:36 -0400 >>>> From: Clem Cole >>>> To: Warner Losh >>>> Cc: TUHS main list , >>>> Grant Taylor >>>> Subject: Re: [TUHS] off-topic list >>>> On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 2:04 PM, Warner Losh wrote: >>>> ​Ok, that all sounds right and I'll take your word for it. I >>>> followed it only from the side and not directly as a customer, since >>>> by then I was really not doing much VMS anything. That said, I had >>>> thought some of the original folks that were part of the PMDF work >>>> were the same crew that did SOL (Michel Gien - the Pascal rewrite of >>>> UNIX - whom I knew in those days from the OS side of the world). I >>>> also thought the reason why the the firm was named after the TGV (and >>>> yes I stand corrected on the name) was because they were French and at >>>> the time the French bullet train was know for being one of the fastest >>>> in the world and the French were very proud of it. >>> >>> I always thought TGV was "Three Guys and a VAX". > > I'd heard "Two Guys and a Vax"... Digging through google search results, I've found stuff suggesting that it started as Two Guys and at some point they added a Third Guy. My VAX/VMS knowlege is long rotted, haven't touched it since the early 90s, but ISTR having TGV Multinet on the VMS system I used, and "Three Guys and a VAX" was the expn I remember reading at the time. -- Michael Parson Pflugerville, TX KF5LGQ