Document Eric Schmidt's Bell Labs work

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Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 20:01:01 -0700
From: Mary Ann Horton
To: Diomidis Spinellis
Subject: Re: [TUHS] unix history git
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Ah, thanks for the clarification.  I am 99.9% sure the E Schmidt who
co-authored Lex with Mike Lesk at Bell Labs is the same Eric Schmidt who
chairs Google.  His Wikipedia entry says he was at Bell Labs.  I do seem
to recall that he had a brief stint there before coming to Berkeley.  In
fact, the Wiki article makes it 100%.  "He was joint author during his
summers at Bell Labs <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs> of Lex
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_%28software%29>;^[8]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Schmidt#cite_note-google1955-8> "

I recall Eric being the author of Berknet while Berkeley - all the "net"
commands you cite below are part of Berknet.  Berknet was a key part of
the email gateway between UUCP and the ARPANET - it was the part with
":" as the email delimiter.

     Mary Ann