From: dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [COFF] Building OS from source in the olden days
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2020 13:15:14 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2011131309290.48674@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201111045823.GH99027@eureka.lemis.com>
On Wed, 11 Nov 2020, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>> Program Temporary Fix.
>
> Yes. But I recall correctly. See the Wikipedia page:
>
> Customers sometimes explain the acronym in a tongue-in-cheek manner as
> permanent temporary fix or more practically probably this fixes,
> because they have the option to make the PTF a permanent part of the
> operating system if the patch fixes the problem.
Yeah, they did have a habit of being permanent, but I don't recall
them ever being called by any of those names during my servitude.
-- Dave
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2020-11-10 23:11 grog
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2020-11-11 3:09 ` grog
2020-11-11 4:54 ` dave
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2020-11-13 2:15 ` dave [this message]
2020-11-13 6:57 ` athornton
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2020-11-11 0:02 ` grog
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2020-11-11 2:03 ` brad
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