[TUHS] Questions regarding early Unix contributors

[Clem Cole]

4 5 or 6 - just a few megabytes ;-)

Same RH11 interface.

On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 2:52 AM, Armando Stettner <aps at ieee.org> wrote:

> I actually recall him having done much of the work at CMU but can’t be
> sure.  I also seem to recall him finish up the paper.  I was lucky in my
> office mates: I had John Lions and tjk.  Some place, I have a few pics of
> USG’s computer room.  I only recall RP04s however.  :(
>
>    aps.
>
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> On Sep 24, 2015, at 10:28 AM, Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Mary Ann Horton <mah at mhorton.net> wrote:
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>> I also heard that Ted K (aka "frodo") got fsck released to Berkeley by
>> swearing (somehow with a straight face) to the Bell Labs lawyers that it
>> had no commercial value.
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>
> ​That would have so much like Ted.   I never heard that story, but I would
> believe it.  I do believe that he told them (rightfully) that it was
> primarily developed at CMU using CMU computing resources (the 11/34A for
> the Digital Lab in the EE Dept that Ted and I ran).  IIRC: the primary
> feature hat he did to it at Summit besides support for the changes in the
> V7 filesystems, was support for large disks (aka RP06) when attached to a
> small address space (11/40 class) systems, of which CMU had a number as I
> believe the Labs did also.   Armando's I believe you two were office mates
> in those days, do you have memory?
>
>
>     We had it at Tektronix because I brought it from CMU.
>
> Clem​
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