[TUHS] The John Snow's of the UNIX family

[Adam Sampson]

Dan Cross <crossd at gmail.com> writes:

> I can't remember the fellow's name; something "Roberts" maybe. [...]
> What's notable about that, to me, was that he wrote UREP for DG/UX and
> was known to be fond of Data General machines.

Robert Michael Owens -- in the utzoo Usenet archives there are very
early posts from him as psuvax!bear. He passed away in 1997; see the
biography here: http://sips2016.rice.edu/bob-owens/

A 1983 post to net.unix-wizards from Bruce Crabill says:

> The Unix version of the RSCS emulator is called UREP (Unix RSCS
> Emulation Program) and is available from Pennsylvania State
> University.  It was written by Robert Owens and Joseph Boykin.  More
> information on it can be obtained from Robert Owens (BITNET:
> OWENS at PSUVAX1).  The VMS version was written by Craig Watkins (BITNET:
> CRW at PSUVMS1).  I have talked to both versions from BITNET and found
> them to be very good emulations of RSCS (which is IBM's Remote
> Spooling Communications Subsystem/Networking).

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Adam Sampson <ats at offog.org>                         <http://offog.org/>