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Distributed systems, operating systems, networking research.

Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research; affiliate faculty, University of Washington.

But realistically: mainly cat photos, food and wine, and bad jokes.

I also administer https://discuss.systems/

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Met some beavers today!

We've recovered another UNIX distribution that hasn't been seen in almost 50 years!

This is UNIX Program Generic Issue 3 from 1977-04-12. It descends from V6 and evolved into System III. We thought it didn't survive, but it turned up in some tapes @bitsavers read yesterday!

You can run it in SIMH with scripts I wrote, browse the sources in the Unix Tree (thanks Warren!) or from a tar, or read the Program Generic documentation (thanks Matt!).

https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2026-April/033605.html

#unix #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

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@wendinoakland @dan I cannot express how happy I am to have found this 6-month-old thread.

But suffice it to say: much happier than the night my seatmate on a NYC Chinatown bus lost control of the bag of live bullfrogs she was toting up to Boston, and I spent the next half hour gamely helping her track them all down.

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