My nickname from high school was Pugs, or Pugsley, inspired by The Addams Family.
My brother Jim, 3 years ahead at Princeton, made sure everyone knew me as Pugs.<\/p>
So Peter, as UNIX admin, gave me the userid 'pugs'. Which has been constant all these years!<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-08-16:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/aka_pugs\/statuses\/114185283628547010","object":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/aka_pugs\/statuses\/114185283628547010","objectType":"note","content":"
My nickname from high school was Pugs, or Pugsley, inspired by The Addams Family.
My brother Jim, 3 years ahead at Princeton, made sure everyone knew me as Pugs.<\/p>
So Peter, as UNIX admin, gave me the userid 'pugs'. Which has been constant all these years!<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@aka_pugs\/114185283628547010","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/aka_pugs\/statuses\/114185283246292475","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@aka_pugs\/114185283246292475"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2025-03-18:objectType=thread:nonce=3a1031c704b163c6","notice_info":{"local_id":"9349297","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2025-03-21T23:08:51+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@aka_pugs\/114185283628547010"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/aka_pugs","displayName":"Tom Lyon \u2705","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/132578-original-tmp20230527182651.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":173,"height":173},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/132578-96-20230527182651.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/132578-48-20230527182651.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/132578-24-20230527182651.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"132578"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/132578-96-20230527182651.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"UNIX Greybeard; sun!pugs; Student of History; Technology Storyteller; Programmer since 1967. Founder - Ipsilon Networks(\u2192 Nokia), Netillion(\u2192 \u23da), Nuova Systems(\u2192 Cisco), DriveScale(\u2192 Twitter)#fedi22 #ComputerHistory #SunMicrosystems #UNIX","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@aka_pugs","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"aka_pugs","displayName":"Tom Lyon \u2705","note":"UNIX Greybeard; sun!pugs; Student of History; Technology Storyteller; Programmer since 1967. Founder - Ipsilon Networks(\u2192 Nokia), Netillion(\u2192 \u23da), Nuova Systems(\u2192 Cisco), DriveScale(\u2192 Twitter)#fedi22 #ComputerHistory #SunMicrosystems #UNIX"}},"content":"
UNIX arrived courtesy of Dr. Jeff Ullman and Bell Labs. Ullman and Al Aho at Bell were deep into their decades-long collaboration (see recent Turing awards), so Ullman convinced Princeton to adopt it.<\/p>
I remember it as being Version 6 of UNIX, a little ahead of the official release.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-08-16:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/aka_pugs\/statuses\/114185283246292475","object":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/aka_pugs\/statuses\/114185283246292475","objectType":"note","content":"
UNIX arrived courtesy of Dr. Jeff Ullman and Bell Labs. Ullman and Al Aho at Bell were deep into their decades-long collaboration (see recent Turing awards), so Ullman convinced Princeton to adopt it.<\/p>
I remember it as being Version 6 of UNIX, a little ahead of the official release.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@aka_pugs\/114185283246292475","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/aka_pugs\/statuses\/114185282821219565","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@aka_pugs\/114185282821219565"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2025-03-18:objectType=thread:nonce=3a1031c704b163c6","notice_info":{"local_id":"9349296","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2025-03-21T23:08:51+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@aka_pugs\/114185283246292475"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/hostux.social\/users\/bmacDonald94","displayName":"Mr. Bill","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/134756-original-tmp20230606234044.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/134756-96-20230826154429.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/134756-48-20230826154429.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/134756-24-20230826154429.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"134756"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/134756-96-20230826154429.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"~ Make America Good for Once~ DM's empty profile and no posts = BlockRetired man. Enjoying life to the fullest and especially my friends. I do no cyber coin nor wish to hook up, those games are behind me. No room for hate and I include all as the tapestry of humankind. A weary warrior for peace and a livable world. PhD Geo Physics. I use the Ubuntu flavor of Linux. 24.04. "If there were a god, Then there would be no religion."Christopher Hitchen'sHumor and Empathy Pronouns: he\/him","url":"https:\/\/hostux.social\/@bmacDonald94","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"bmacDonald94","displayName":"Mr. Bill","note":"~ Make America Good for Once~ DM's empty profile and no posts = BlockRetired man. Enjoying life to the fullest and especially my friends. I do no cyber coin nor wish to hook up, those games are behind me. No room for hate and I include all as the tapestry of humankind. A weary warrior for peace and a livable world. PhD Geo Physics. I use the Ubuntu flavor of Linux. 24.04. 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