Re: [9fans] from slashdot

2005-08-18 Thread Joel Salomon
On 8/18/05, Nigel Roles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > C H Forsyth wrote: > >i thought the more important thing would be > >what might happen to the espresso machine. > > > Yes, a magnificent beast. I guess the best approach would be to make > a key component of a proposed wireless infrastructure in

Re: [9fans] from slashdot

2005-08-18 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
On 8/18/05, Nigel Roles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > C H Forsyth wrote: > > >>>I don't anticipate any change to the sources and web infrastructure. > >>> > >>> > > > >i thought the more important thing would be > >what might happen to the espresso machine. > > > > > > > Yes, a magnificent beast. I

Re: [9fans] from slashdot

2005-08-18 Thread Sape Mullender
>>>I don't anticipate any change to the sources and web infrastructure. > > i thought the more important thing would be > what might happen to the espresso machine. Don't worry about that. We will hang on to that if it's the last thing we do. Sape

Re: [9fans] from slashdot

2005-08-18 Thread Nigel Roles
C H Forsyth wrote: I don't anticipate any change to the sources and web infrastructure. i thought the more important thing would be what might happen to the espresso machine. Yes, a magnificent beast. I guess the best approach would be to make a key component of a proposed wireless

Re: [9fans] from slashdot

2005-08-18 Thread C H Forsyth
>>I don't anticipate any change to the sources and web infrastructure. i thought the more important thing would be what might happen to the espresso machine.

Re: [9fans] from slashdot

2005-08-17 Thread Trickey, Howard W (Howard)
> Does this have any impact on Jim and Russ? > Will this affect the sources and web infrastructure at all Sape already answered this, but let me just confirm. Jim and Russ (as consultant) continue to have a welcome home in Bell Labs in a new "Computing Systems Research" department that I will lea

Re: [9fans] from slashdot

2005-08-17 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
>> Ken Thompson retired to California. > > he is still listed at www.entrisphere.com, so perhaps he still > writes the odd line of code brucee was kind enough to share some of his memories of the labs and of Ken. I understand when the man says something, every word is a pearl.

Re: [9fans] from slashdot

2005-08-17 Thread Charles Forsyth
> Ken Thompson retired to California. he is still listed at www.entrisphere.com, so perhaps he still writes the odd line of code

Re: [9fans] from slashdot

2005-08-17 Thread Sape Mullender
>> http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9846/ur0508l/ur0508l.html > > Does this have any impact on Jim and Russ? > Will this affect the sources and web infrastructure at all? No.

Re: [9fans] from slashdot

2005-08-17 Thread Vester Thacker
On 8/17/05, Sape Mullender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That was not a very nice thing to say. There are some fairly capable > people left at Lucent although they may not be working on general > purpose operating systems. There still is a lot of fun working on > other systems issues — wireless,

Re: [9fans] from slashdot

2005-08-17 Thread Sape Mullender
> and the article itself: > > http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9846/ur0508l/ur0508l.html > > text: > > Dept. 1127: going, Going, GONE! by Peter H. Salus > > In 1969, UNIX was created at Bell Labs. > > For decades, the source of the AT&T dialect of UNIX came from the > researches of work

Re: [9fans] from slashdot

2005-08-16 Thread Tim Newsham
http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9846/ur0508l/ur0508l.html Does this have any impact on Jim and Russ? Will this affect the sources and web infrastructure at all? Tim Newsham http://www.lava.net/~newsham/

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2005-08-16 Thread andrey mirtchovski
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/16/2225215 Peter Salus over at UnixReview.com is reporting that AT&T Department 1127, responsible for creating and maintaining Unix, has been officially disbanded. The article provides an interesting "where are they now?" list of the original authors