[TUHS] Coastal cultures, collaboration, creativity and Sun vs DEC.

Rob Pike robpike at gmail.com
Wed Jan 12 06:44:27 AEST 2022


Similar. Everyone at Bell Labs was so *proper*.  (Except Ken, of course.
Ken is *sui generis*, and a Californian).

I'm sure it wasn't really me, but it felt like I was the first person to
utter a curse word in the Unix room.

-rob





On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 7:26 AM George Michaelson <ggm at algebras.org> wrote:

> Bit of this in ietf too. Inner cohort of vint and similar background wear
> three piece suits.
>
> Three: vest not optional.
>
> A west coast mob wear tie-dye tees.
>
> On Wed, 12 Jan 2022, 6:18 am Rob Pike, <robpike at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I see a stylistic connection between the style of writing of the manuals
>> and the New York journalism, especially that of the New Yorker. When I
>> arrived at Bell Labs, I was a little taken aback by the change of culture
>> in writing, dressing, and entertainment compared to my years as a grad
>> student in California. I mean, I fit in - I subscribed to the New Yorker -
>> but I felt like a bum in a room full of high society folk.
>>
>> That feeling never really left.
>>
>> -rob
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 6:35 AM John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 1:37 PM Dan Cross <crossd at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> It seems like Unix is largely a child of the coasts.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> We can add the eastern coast of Australia, where the original Wollongong
>>> group made the first V6 port to the Interdata 7/32 (not to be confused with
>>> the Labs port to the 8/32). The Western U.S. company of the same name was
>>> formed to sell it, but I don't know if any of the Ozites moved to Palo Alto.
>>>
>>
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