16 Jan
2025
16 Jan
'25
6:42 a.m.
I often repeat a throwaway sentence that UUCP was Lesk, building a bug fix
distribution mechanism.
Am I completely wrong? I am sure Mike said this to me mid 80s.
Not that subsequent codeword didn't happen.
G
On Thu, 16 Jan 2025, 2:24 am Norman Wilson, <norman(a)oclsc.org> wrote:
Robert's uucp was in use in the Research world
when I arrived
in late summer of 1984. It had an interesting and sensible
structure; in particular uucico was split into two programs,
ci and co.
One of the first things I was asked to do when I got there was
to get Honey Danber working as a replacement. I don't remember
why that was preferred; possibly just because Robert was a
summer student, not a full-fledged member of the lab, and we
didn't want something as important to us as uucp to rely on
orphaned code.
Honey Danber was in place by the time we made the V8 tape,
toward the end of 1984.
Norman Wilson
Toronto ON