> The author of UREP could certainly have qualified as big brother. I knew Bob Owens well (he was my undergrad advisor at Penn State).
He was quite a character--he managed to rub many people the wrong way, but he was also very generous. JNET, which was big-bucks commercial RSCS emulation software for VMS, was written from the UREP code base--as I recall, he gave it to the JNET authors because they asked him nicely. He was quite a hacker. His coding style seemed inexplicably alien until you realized it was designed around his severe dyslexia. AT&T donated a pile of 3B2's to the CS department. They were running some stuffy System III Unix including a frightening thing called 3Bnet. But they came with Blit (5620) terminals, and somehow the host-side software ran on BSD on our Vax. I don't remember whether the first mouse I used was a Sun optical mouse or the Depraz on the Blit. Boy, those buttons were nice. Dave Eckhardt
