[TUHS] Questions regarding early Unix contributors

[arnold at skeeve.com]

Hi.

This is the first I've heard that there was a book on PCC. I think
many of us would like to see it.  Do you have a copy that can be
scanned? Or does anyone have the source?

Thanks,

Arnold

scj at yaccman.com wrote:

> Lions' books on Unix and PCC were brilliant, although they had limited
> circulation.  I confess that the PCC book was sometimes difficult reading,
> as code that I cobbled together at 2AM was laid bare to the world.  I
> remember a particularly tangled mess of 10 or so lines that John displayed
> with the comment "advocates of structured programming might have preferred
> to see:" followed by 3 short, elegant lines of code...
>
>
>
> > On Sat, 26 Sep 2015, Armando Stettner wrote:
> >
> >> I also seem to recall him finish up the paper. Â I was lucky in my
> >> office
> >> mates: I had John Lions and tjk. Â Some place, I have a few pics of
> >> USGâ␦␦s
> >> computer room. Â I only recall RP04s however. Â :( Â  Â aps.
> >
> > Dr. John Lions?  He was one of my Comp.Sci lecturers, and a brilliant
> > bloke.
> >
> > It was a sad day when we lost him.
> >
> > I remember a USENET posting from long ago (yeah, I know), when someone
> > swore that it was Lyons.  Someone then replied along the lines of "Well,
> > I've just walked past his office door; it's Lions, as in the big cat."
> >
> > Of course, my memory could be a little flakey by now.
> >
> > --
> > Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will
> > suffer."
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