On Wed, Jul 03, 2024 at 05:03:42PM -0700, Tom Lyon
wrote:
The fabulous Dr. Honeyman made a gift to me of
his Lions' books which were
printed by Bell Labs. Does anyone know WHEN that happened or WHO made it
happen?
I figure it must have been at least 1 year and maybe 2 after Lions'
originals.
"One night in 1978 John received a telephone call from
Doug McIlroy at Bell Laboratories saying that they would like to
assume responsibility for distributing the notes".
Berny Goodheart, in the back of the peer-to-peer version,
"About the author".
also in
tuhs Documentation/AUUGN/AUUGN-V16.5.pdf p 15
"One night (sometime in 1978?), I had a phone call from
Doug McIlroy saying BTL would like to assume responsibility for
distributing these documents, and would I agree? I did. It saved
me much work."
change in distribution was mentioned by John Lions in
;login: March 1978
https://archive.org/details/login_march-1978/page/n1/mode/2up