[TUHS] ACM Fellow, Ken Thompson

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Mon Jan 18 08:19:25 AEST 2021


On Fri, 15 Jan 2021, John Cowan wrote (and somehow mangled the formatting)::

> >     > Whose foray?  Not DEC's.  Eunice was built at SRI and sold by
> >     the
> >     > Wollongong Group, who must have had Downundrian connections.  
> 
> >
> >      It was
> >     originally developed ca. 1981 by David Kashtan at SRI[1] and
> >     later
> >     maintained and marketed by The Wollongong Group.''
> 
> Where's the disagreement?

You appeared to disagree with my (joking) observation that Eunice made VMS 
look civilised, as though Eunice was never designed for it (I have the 
thread archived somewhere).

-- Dave


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