16 Jan
2019
16 Jan
'19
9:05 p.m.
Dan Cross <crossd(a)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@PSUVAX1). The VMS version was written by Craig Watkins (BITNET:
CRW@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).
--
Adam Sampson <ats(a)offog.org> <http://offog.org/>