On Wed, 27 Jun 2018, arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 23:57:14 -0600
From: arnold(a)skeeve.com
To: mparson(a)bl.org, clemc(a)ccc.com
Cc: tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] off-topic list
Clem cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
Makes sense.
Sent from my PDP-7 Running UNIX V0 expect things to be almost but not quite.
> On Jun 27, 2018, at 5:33 PM, Michael Parson <mparson(a)bl.org> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 26 Jun 2018, Clem Cole wrote:
>>
>> Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 17:16:36 -0400
>> From: Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com>
>> To: Warner Losh <imp(a)bsdimp.com>
>> Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org>,
>> Grant Taylor <gtaylor(a)tnetconsulting.net>
>> Subject: Re: [TUHS] off-topic list
>> On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 2:04 PM, Warner Losh <imp(a)bsdimp.com> wrote:
>> Ok, that all sounds right and I'll take your word for it. I
>> followed it only from the side and not directly as a customer, since
>> by then I was really not doing much VMS anything. That said, I had
>> thought some of the original folks that were part of the PMDF work
>> were the same crew that did SOL (Michel Gien - the Pascal rewrite of
>> UNIX - whom I knew in those days from the OS side of the world). I
>> also thought the reason why the the firm was named after the TGV (and
>> yes I stand corrected on the name) was because they were French and at
>> the time the French bullet train was know for being one of the fastest
>> in the world and the French were very proud of it.
>
> I always thought TGV was "Three Guys and a VAX".
I'd heard "Two Guys and a Vax"...
Digging through google search results, I've found stuff suggesting that
it started as Two Guys and at some point they added a Third Guy. My
VAX/VMS knowlege is long rotted, haven't touched it since the early 90s,
but ISTR having TGV Multinet on the VMS system I used, and "Three Guys
and a VAX" was the expn I remember reading at the time.
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Michael Parson
Pflugerville, TX
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