[TUHS] Surprised about Unix System V in the 80's - so sparse!

[George Michaelson]

I often think about Quartermains book "the matrix" and also Carl
Malamud's time couch-surfing his contact list.

Both of them were very much "of their time" -you wouldn't need to
write "the matrix" now, because convergence has taken care of many of
the meta-net issues Quartermain talked about.

Carls problem on the other hand, just got monetised into AirBNB

On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 9:19 AM M Douglas McIlroy
<m.douglas.mcilroy at dartmouth.edu> wrote:
>
> Connectivity evolved rapidly in the early 1980s. In 1980 I served on the
> board of CSNet, which connected have-not CS departments (including Bell
> Labs) via dialup and X.25 links onto the periphery of the magic circle
> of Arpanet.
> By 1982 it was not extraordinary that I could via international email arrange
> all aspects of a trip to visit lively universities of the AUUG.