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13 Jan 2010

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Subject: Re: [TUHS] E_GREG ??
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Hey, I know and like Greg.  I used to work for him.  I've cc-ed him on this,
he may not know about this list.  And might enjoy it.

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:07:19PM -0500, Brantley Coile wrote:
...
  Greg Chesson. He designed the uucp g protocol. There
was a piece of  
 networking gear at Murray hill that Greg worked on that every now and  
 then would fail to connect. Someone modified the message to read "it's  
 all Greg's fault.". Later the string became an errno, I think for the  
 Netb file server protocol. Plan 9 still has an EGREG even though it is a 
 string in plan 9. It now reads "Ken has left the building."

 iPhone email

 On Dec 15, 2009, at 7:02 PM, Warren Toomey &lt;wkt(a)tuhs.org&gt; wrote:

  I just saw this on Groklaw:

    There were not many machines which ran Version 10. They were all
    at Murray Hill and some of them were donated to Auburn University
    when AT&T closed up shop.  We got some old MicroVAX machines and
    a couple of printed manuals. One of the printed manuals lists
    various error codes. One of them is

    E_GREG Greg did it.

    Poor Greg. who was he, really?

 Anybody know the answer? Norman?

 P.S Merry Xmas to all.
 Cheers,
    Warren
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