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From: "Bruce Ellis" <brucee@chunder.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Threads: Sewing badges of honor onto a Kernel
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actually ir was an april fools thing.

if you set english ... then you would get stylish pids

Four hundred and fourteen.

tho i think some of the 'vi' messages were funnier.

must have been the nine schooners.

brucee
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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
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> > Just from my guess, it looks fancier to someone, however, it solves n=
o
> > essencial problem. =E2=98=BA
>
> roman numerals were all very fine for writing down numbers, but were
> a nightmare to do mathematics with. this was due to their awful
> representation.
>
> brucee did once add roman numbers to csh.  you could:
>
>     set roman
>
> and it would spit roman numerals where it thought it needed
> to spit numbers.  iirc, history was one example.