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  Re: Email Address for Mark Compton former Editor Unix Review canamjay@gmail.com - 2016-03-14 18:13 -0700
    Re: Email Address for Mark Compton former Editor Unix Review Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2016-03-15 14:58 -0400
      Re: Email Address for Mark Compton former Editor Unix Review "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2016-03-15 15:48 -0500

#160991 — Re: Email Address for Mark Compton former Editor Unix Review

On Wednesday, 19 January 1994 11:31:20 UTC-8, Ronda Hauben  wrote:
> Does anyone know the email address for Mark Compton who was
> the Editor of Unix Review during its early days (the 1984 - on
> period)? The articles, interviews, during the period when
> he was editor document Unix developments in a helpful and
> informative way. I've heard that there was an effort to make 
> Unix Review during the period when he was Editor a Scientific
> American type of publication for the computer science community.
> 
> It would be interesting to gather and update some of the fine
> interviews and articles with Unix pioneers that fill the 
> pages of the Unix Review during the mid 1980's.
> 
> There are interviews with pioneers like John Lions, Berk Tague,
> Victor Vyssotsky, Bill Joy to name just a few, and articles by
> Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson, (reprints of their valauble
> Turing award speeches), August Mohr, John Stoneback, Marshall Kirk
> McKusick, Douglas Comer, etc.
> 
> Also, I wondered if anyone knew if back issues of these early
> years of Unix Review can be bought from anywhere? 
> 
> In this year of the 25th anniversary of the birth of Unix
> it would be interesting to see how many of the hopes, lessons,
> achievements and predictions that are documented in these
> articles and interviews have been built on or realized and what
> the lessons to be learned are.
> 
> 


> Ronda

I worked with Mark many years ago... a very capable guy and convivial.. you might find a current contact for Mark through this connection:
http://tinyurl.com/jhzcrsk

Best of luck... 

JW

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canamjay@gmail.com writes:

> On Wednesday, 19 January 1994 11:31:20 UTC-8, Ronda Hauben  wrote:
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Wow.  There's a blast from the past!  I remember when Ronda was writing her
book.

> I worked with Mark many years ago... a very capable guy and convivial.. you
> might find a current contact for Mark through this connection:
> http://tinyurl.com/jhzcrsk

Usually when someone answers a post from more than 20 years ago we simply make
merciless fun of them, but the astonishment of seeing a response to someone who
was legitimately famous on Usenet almost makes up for it.

-- 
Rich Alderson                                   news@alderson.users.panix.com
    the russet leaves of an autumn oak/inspire once again the failed poet/
    to take up his pen/and essay to place his meagre words upon the page...

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#161023

"Rich Alderson" <news@alderson.users.panix.com> wrote in message 
news:mddbn6ftvp8.fsf@panix5.panix.com...
>
>               [snip...]                        [snip...] 
> [snip...]
>
> Usually when someone answers a post from more than 20 years ago we simply 
> make
> merciless fun of them, but the astonishment of seeing a response to 
> someone who
> was legitimately famous on Usenet almost makes up for it.
>

Almost...

-- 

numerist at aquaporin4 dot com

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