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From: William Josephson <jkw@eecs.harvard.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Reason Plan 9 didn't catch on ... and other Fairy Tales
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 15:49:17 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011113154917.A86296@honk.eecs.harvard.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011113203711.2ACF819B10@mail.cse.psu.edu>; from presotto@closedmind.org on Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 03:37:09PM -0500

On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 03:37:09PM -0500, presotto@closedmind.org wrote:
> Gosh, I thought rsc was "Ask the Oracle".  He's up
> at all hours, always logged on, and infinitely
> helpful.

Almost all hours: he claims that once the dump starts
and everything freezes he goes to bed.  I'm rather
dubious about that, though.  I prefer the theory,
shared by a number around here, that there are two
copies of him.

 -WJ


  reply	other threads:[~2001-11-13 20:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-13 20:37 presotto
2001-11-13 20:49 ` William Josephson [this message]
2001-11-13 21:49 ` Dan Cross
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-11-13 20:29 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-13 20:27 A. Baker

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