From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cowan@ccil.org (John Cowan) Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 16:17:39 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] who is "Veigh S. Meer"? In-Reply-To: <55A7D25F.3050907@solar.stanford.edu> References: <55A7D25F.3050907@solar.stanford.edu> Message-ID: Scripsit Deborah Scherrer: > Peter Salus noted there was workshop in Newport, RI, in 1984 concerning > "Distributed UNIX." The report on "Distributed UNIX" by Veigh S. Meer [a > transparent pseudonym] appeared in /;login:/ 9.5 (November 1984), pp. > 5-9. So who was "Veigh S. Meer"? The affiliation says "Bellcore," but > who was there in 1984? Peter's first thought was Peter Langston. The punning pseudonym, the complaint at the end that Unix and C are dead and nothing is even on the horizon to replace them, and the general snarky tone suggest to me that it's Rob "Mark V. Shaney" Pike. In that case, the affiliation with Bellcore is a blind ("not Goodyear, Goodrich"). -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.org All Gaul is divided into three parts: the part that cooks with lard and goose fat, the part that cooks with olive oil, and the part that cooks with butter. --David Chessler