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From: "Skip Tavakkolian" <fst@centurytel.net>
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Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 16:54:57 -0700
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>>> Is this why Plan9 uses pjw as the catchall glyph?
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>> those who forget their history are doomed to repeat it ...
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>> ever seen the pjw labs management hierarchy diagram?
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>> or the t-shirt, or the tower, or the stolen tower template, or the thief, or the
>> accused thief?
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>  cf. http://spinroot.com/pico/pjw.html

Thanks, now I remember.  I did read about it in the Digital Darkroom book.
But like a good story, it is fun to hear it again.

Maybe a deeper question is, why did Pike and Holzmann do it?  Was
it an inspiration that then snowballed, or was there a deeper
motivation?  The campaign to distribute it in so many forms, certainly
has a fanatical feel to it.