[TUHS] off-topic list

Clem cole clemc at ccc.com
Thu Jun 28 08:27:34 AEST 2018


Makes sense. 

Sent from my PDP-7 Running UNIX V0 expect things to be almost but not quite. 

> On Jun 27, 2018, at 5:33 PM, Michael Parson <mparson at bl.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 26 Jun 2018, Clem Cole wrote:
>> 
>> Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 17:16:36 -0400
>> From: Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com>
>> To: Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com>
>> Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org>,
>>    Grant Taylor <gtaylor at tnetconsulting.net>
>> Subject: Re: [TUHS] off-topic list
>> On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 2:04 PM, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
>> ​Ok, that all sounds right and I'll take your word for it.  I
>> followed it only from the side and not directly as a customer, since
>> by then I was really not doing much VMS anything.  That said, I had
>> thought some of the original folks that were part of the PMDF work
>> were the same crew that did SOL (Michel Gien - the Pascal rewrite of
>> UNIX - whom I knew in those days from the OS side of the world).  I
>> also thought the reason why the the firm was named after the TGV (and
>> yes I stand corrected on the name) was because they were French and at
>> the time the French bullet train was know for being one of the fastest
>> in the world and the French were very proud of it.
> 
> I always thought TGV was "Three Guys and a VAX".
> 
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> Michael Parson
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