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(a)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(a)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(a)ccil.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 1:37 PM Dan Cross <crossd(a)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.
>>
>