[TUHS] E_GREG ??

Brantley Coile brantley at coraid.com
Wed Jan 13 13:07:19 AEST 2010


Greg Chesson. He designed the uucp g protocol. There was a piece of  
networking gear at Murray hill that Greg worked on that every now and  
then would fail to connect. Someone modified the message to read "it's  
all Greg's fault.". Later the string became an errno, I think for the  
Netb file server protocol. Plan 9 still has an EGREG even though it is  
a string in plan 9. It now reads "Ken has left the building."

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On Dec 15, 2009, at 7:02 PM, Warren Toomey <wkt at tuhs.org> wrote:

> I just saw this on Groklaw:
>
>    There were not many machines which ran Version 10. They were all
>    at Murray Hill and some of them were donated to Auburn University
>    when AT&T closed up shop.  We got some old MicroVAX machines and
>    a couple of printed manuals. One of the printed manuals lists
>    various error codes. One of them is
>
>    E_GREG Greg did it.
>
>    Poor Greg. who was he, really?
>
> Anybody know the answer? Norman?
>
> P.S Merry Xmas to all.
> Cheers,
>    Warren
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