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From: Adam Sampson <ats@offog.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] The John Snow's of the UNIX family
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 15:05:51 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <y2a1s5chcc0.fsf@offog.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEoi9W5quyXkE3PQEhN4GacybFLjNqmHz10m5FxVOeKynoQ+Wg@mail.gmail.com> (Dan Cross's message of "Wed, 16 Jan 2019 09:24:54 -0500")

Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com> writes:

> I can't remember the fellow's name; something "Roberts" maybe. [...]
> What's notable about that, to me, was that he wrote UREP for DG/UX and
> was known to be fond of Data General machines.

Robert Michael Owens -- in the utzoo Usenet archives there are very
early posts from him as psuvax!bear. He passed away in 1997; see the
biography here: http://sips2016.rice.edu/bob-owens/

A 1983 post to net.unix-wizards from Bruce Crabill says:

> The Unix version of the RSCS emulator is called UREP (Unix RSCS
> Emulation Program) and is available from Pennsylvania State
> University.  It was written by Robert Owens and Joseph Boykin.  More
> information on it can be obtained from Robert Owens (BITNET:
> OWENS@PSUVAX1).  The VMS version was written by Craig Watkins (BITNET:
> CRW@PSUVMS1).  I have talked to both versions from BITNET and found
> them to be very good emulations of RSCS (which is IBM's Remote
> Spooling Communications Subsystem/Networking).

-- 
Adam Sampson <ats@offog.org>                         <http://offog.org/>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-01-16 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-16  3:49 alan
2019-01-16  4:07 ` George Michaelson
2019-01-16  4:47   ` Henry Bent
2019-01-16  6:05     ` Warner Losh
2019-01-16 14:24   ` Dan Cross
2019-01-16 14:40     ` Jon Forrest
2019-01-16 14:40     ` Kevin Bowling
2019-01-16 14:58       ` Dan Cross
2019-01-16 15:10         ` Lars Brinkhoff
2019-01-16 15:50       ` Clem Cole
2019-01-16 14:51     ` Chet Ramey
2019-01-16 15:05     ` Adam Sampson [this message]
2019-01-17  6:53     ` [TUHS] UREP - Unix RSCS Emulation Program arnold
2019-01-16 15:44 ` [TUHS] The John Snow's of the UNIX family Clem Cole

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