[TUHS] off-topic list

arnold at skeeve.com arnold at skeeve.com
Thu Jun 28 15:57:14 AEST 2018


I'd heard "Two Guys and a Vax"...

Clem cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:

> 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".
> > 
> > -- 
> > Michael Parson
> > Pflugerville, TX
> > KF5LGQ



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