From BWK on contributor names - TUHS

25 Sep 2015

Hi All.

Here is BWK's contribution.

| Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 17:28:21 -0400 (EDT)
| From: Brian Kernighan &lt;bwk(a)cs.princeton.edu&gt;
| To: arnold(a)skeeve.com
| Subject: Re: please get out your flash light...
|
| Some answers interpolated, but lots remain mysteries...
|
| On Thu, 24 Sep 2015, arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:
|
| > Hi. Can you shed some light?
| >
| >> From: Diomidis Spinellis &lt;dds(a)aueb.gr&gt;
| >> To: tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org
| >> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 12:27:03 +0300
| >> Subject: [TUHS] Questions regarding early Unix contributors
| >>
| >> I found out that the book "Life with Unix" by Don Libes and Sandy
| >> Ressler has a seven page listing of Unix notables, and I'm using that to
| >> fill gaps in the contributors of the Unix history repository [1,2].
| >> Working through the list, the following questions came up.
| >>
| >> - Lorinda Cherry is credited with diction.  But diction.c first appears
| >> in 4BSD and 2.10BSD.  Did Lorinda Cherry implement it at Berkeley?
|
| Nina Macdonald, maybe?  Lorinda worked with people in that group.
|
| >> - Is Chuck Haley listed in the book as the author of tar the same as
| >> Charles B. Haley who co-authored V7 usr/doc/{regen,security,setup}?  He
| >> appears to have worked both at Bell labs (tar, usr/doc/*) and at
| >> Berkeley (ex, Pascal).  Is this correct?
|
| I think so.
|
| >> - Andrew Koenig is credited with varargs.  This is a four-line header
| >> file in V7. Did he actually write it?
| >>
| >> - Ted Dolotta is credited with the mm macros, but the document "Typing
| >> Documents with MM is written by by D. W. Smith and E. M. Piskorik.  Did
| >> its authors only write the documentation?  Did Ted Dolotta also write
| >> mmcheck?
|
| I don't think Ted wrote -mm; he might have been the manager of that
| group?  Ask him: ted(a)dolotta.org
|
| >> Also, I'm missing the login identifiers for the following people.  If
| >> anyone remembers them, please send me a note.
| >>
| >> Bell Labs, PWB, USG, USDL:
|
| ark
|
| >> Andrew Koenig
| >> Charles B. Haley
| >> Dick Haight
|
| Maybe rhaight, but don't quote me.  Last address I have is from
| long ago:  rhaight(a)jedi.accn.org
|
| >> Greg Chesson
|
| Can't remember whether it was grc or greg
|
| >> Herb Gellis
| >> Mark Rochkind
|
| You probably mean Marc J Rochkind.  I think it was mmr, but
| ask him: rochkind(a)basepath.com
|
| >> Ted Dolotta
| >>
| >> BSD:
| >> Bill Reeves
| >> Charles B. Haley
| >> Colin L. Mc Master
| >> Chris Van Wyk
|
| Was Chris ever part of BSD?  He was at Stanford, then Bell Labs,
| where he was cvw.
|
| >> Douglas Lanam
| >> David Willcox
| >> Eric Schienbrood
| >> Earl T. Cohen
| >> Herb Gellis
| >> Ivan Maltz
| >> Juan Porcar
| >> Len Edmondson
| >> Mark Rochkind
|
| See above
|
| >> Mike Tilson
| >> Olivier Roubine
| >> Peter Honeyman
|
| honey  (remember honeydanber?
|
| >> R. Dowell
| >> Ross Harvey
| >> Robert Toxen
| >> Tom Duff
|
| td
|
| >> Ted Dolotta
| >> T. J. Kowalski
|
| frodo
|
| >> Finally, I've summarized all contributions allocated through file path
| >> regular expressions [3] into two tables ordered by author [4].  (The
| >> summary is auto-generated by taking the last significant part of each
| >> path regex.) If you want, please have a look at them and point out
| >> omissions and mistakes.
| >>
| >> I will try to commit all responses I receive with appropriate credit to
| >> the repository.  (You can also submit a GitHub pull-request, if you prefer.)
| >>
| >> [1] https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo
| >> [2]
| >> http://www.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/pubs/conf/2015-MSR-Unix-History/html/Spi15c.pdf
| >> [3]
| >> https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-make/tree/master/src/author-path
| >> [4] http://istlab.dmst.aueb.gr/~dds/contributions.pdf
| >>
| >> Diomidis
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