23 Dec
2022
23 Dec
'22
1 a.m.
i used to work for ianj (his login), and in fact, he persuaded bell labs to hire me from
australia.
he had been my boss at the australian graduate school of management.
i think jon lions induced bell labs to interview ian for a job.
ian has retired and lives in rural victoria (australia), i think.
i occasionally have an alumni zoom conference with him.
ian caused a kerfuffle with bell labs. he was so good at his job that bell labs
wanted to promote him to supervisor but at the time, he
was still on a visitor (j-1) visa.
On Dec 19, 2022, at 9:38 AM, Phil Budne
<phil(a)ultimate.com> wrote:
I also found mention at http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120/ch106.x09
chapter 9 of http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120/ with footnote 96:
Ian Johnstone, who had been the tutor at University of New
South Wales working with Professor John Lions, was one of the
researchers invited to Bell Labs. He managed the completion at
AT&T Bell Labs of the port of Unix to the IBM 370 computer. See
"Unix on Big Iron" by Ian Johnstone and Steve Rosenthal, UNIX
Review, October, 1984, p. 26. Johnstone also led the group that did
the port to the AT&T 2B20A multiprocessor system.
Thanks!
Phil