Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news-out.readnews.com!news-xxxfer.readnews.com!panix!MIX!Blackbird From: billy@MIX.COM Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp11,comp.sys.dec,vmsnet.pdp-11 Subject: Re: Y3K for PDP-11 Operating Systems Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 17:23:54 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <9425gcFhnpU1@mid.individual.net> <4dde5d3f.2187617@news.optusnet.com.au> <4de08f1c.7375774@news.optusnet.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix5.panix.com X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1306517034 17835 166.84.1.5 (27 May 2011 17:23:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 17:23:54 +0000 (UTC) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.sys.dec:527 In vmsnet.pdp-11 paramucho wrote: > BTW: I notice that after 30 years Columbia at putting THE KERMIT > PROJECT, the world's first real open source project, into cold storage > as of July 1. Wow. I just looked... Thanks for letting me know. > I was thinking today of a mad Swiss programmer, "Hanse", who did some > work on RT-11 Kermit back in the mid 1980s--in a one-week visit to my > company in a small German village he more of the locals than I did in > a decade He worked all day and then hit the local pubs. Some of his work was very helpful to me, and is in the Kermit I maintain. In particular the modem handler (KM). I'd call him a Babe Ruth (famous American baseball player) of software - drink 12+ beers the night before a world series game, then play incredibly well... Billy Y.. -- sub #'9+1 ,r0 ; convert ascii byte add #9.+1 ,r0 ; to an integer bcc 20$ ; not a number