From: Jon Forrest <nobozo@gmail.com>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] UNIX: A History and a Memoir by Brian W. Kernighan is now out
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 16:18:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bdb8862e-8614-ba7b-9366-d1e7a0650348@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4caae9f3-a9dd-1a77-6f2b-633cba870562@mhorton.net>
On 10/28/2019 4:01 PM, Mary Ann Horton wrote:
> That's similar but different in a couple of important ways. And it's not
> G.R. Emlin's, that's what reminded me of it.
>
> Here is the badge story as I heard it.
You're right. Your story is very similar to mine. I wonder
if my friend heard the Bell Labs story and decided to try
it at Ford. Your description of the guard's reaction was
better, and more accurate, than mine.
In my case, I know it happened because I was there.
Jon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-28 23:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-20 22:43 Norman Wilson
2019-10-23 23:28 ` arnold
2019-10-23 23:38 ` Warner Losh
2019-10-23 23:59 ` Adam Thornton
2019-11-01 22:24 ` Chris Hanson
2019-10-24 17:31 ` Justin Andrusk
2019-10-25 2:45 ` Earl Baugh
2019-10-28 21:41 ` Mary Ann Horton
2019-10-28 22:09 ` Jon Forrest
2019-10-28 23:01 ` Mary Ann Horton
2019-10-28 23:18 ` Jon Forrest [this message]
2019-10-28 23:49 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2019-10-29 2:05 ` Lawrence Stewart
2019-10-29 20:13 ` Mary Ann Horton
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2019-10-20 21:34 Naveen Nathan
2019-10-20 22:05 ` Warner Losh
2019-10-21 2:41 ` Caipenghui
2019-10-21 0:06 ` Larry McVoy
2019-10-21 0:54 ` Jacob Ritorto
2019-10-21 21:40 ` Bakul Shah
2019-10-22 21:38 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2019-10-22 21:51 ` Rob Pike
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