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From: bbownes@eagle_snax.UUCP ( Sun ECD Software)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: random glitch
Message-ID: <128@eagle_snax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Jun-87 10:24:44 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 22 10:24:44 1987
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Summary: P1's father. I mean author

In article <711@gryphon.CTS.COM>, richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
> In article <1237@nesac2.UUCP>, jec@nesac2.UUCP (John Carter ATLN SADM) writes:
> > Perhaps the references to a random glitch program are inspired by
> > 
> > 	1) the INFECT command from some versions of the Un*x manual
> > 
> > 	2) "The Adolescence of P1" - author's name lost in my write-only
> > 	    memory - 
> > 	    available for probably 6 or 7 years
>                                    ^^^^^^
> Shoot! I read it in '79 and the copy I had was kinda old. I Hear the
> author was a Waterloo type who ended up at Digital Research.
> 

	"The Adolescence of P1" was written by Thomas J. Ryan, a
"computer consultant and troubleshooter". Since my copy is in Albany
and not here i can't tell you the publication date. However, I have a
first print, first edition of the trade paperback, and it has on the cover
a picture of: adm3a, Altair 8800b, Altair Disk, and altair EPROM programmer.
I believe it was published in or around 1976.

	I always like the phrase just after the dedication:

		"Nothing works....And Nobody cares"
					Woody Allen.



	Bob Bownes 	Sun Microsystems East Coast Division   
	sun!suneast!beowulf!bbownes	

This is my opinion and mine only. It is not shared by my current or
any former employers. It may however, be shared by my TR-6 or my houseplants.