From: ron@ronnatalie.com (Ron Natalie)
Subject: Unix witticisms
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2017 22:33:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <001001d33f14$bbfe0900$33fa1b00$@ronnatalie.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKr6gn0Aq7PtKkP4wsPEZC5UZkov5-SUq5iRvcB0ZZVVX=_Ozw@mail.gmail.com>
"Roff is the simplest of the run off programs but is utterly frozen " appeared in the V6 man pages.
This led to a whole slew (at least at JHU) comments in program documents about being "utterly frozen."
The large freshman "Models and Simulation" class used basic plus and a special command called "lnmns" was created to link the necessary files into the user's home dir.
Our docs said that "lnmns was the simplenst of the transcendental programs but is utterly frozen."
For those who know nroff/troff, we had fun in that our senior programmer "Michael John Muuss" wrote a macro package called tmac.jm which was invoked with nroff -mjm (his initials).
This lead to all kinds of jokes including calling lnmns "bill" after its programmers.
Many years later there was a proposal to rename the concept of freeware "Flugelware" after some guy named "Flugel" who alledgedly came up with the idea.
I suggested that we call the C compiler "Ritchie" after its creator. I got an immediate reponse from dmr telling me to nip that idea in the bud.
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Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-04 8:30 Wesley Parish
2017-10-05 9:22 ` Don Hopkins
2017-10-05 14:26 ` Ron Natalie
2017-10-05 14:37 ` Dan Cross
2017-10-05 15:33 ` Ron Natalie
2017-10-05 17:11 ` [TUHS] " ron minnich
2017-10-05 19:06 ` A. P. Garcia
2017-10-05 14:48 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-10-05 23:28 ` Robert Brockway
2017-10-06 1:01 ` Steve Simon
2017-10-06 1:33 ` Bakul Shah
2017-10-07 8:51 ` Russell Page
2017-10-07 13:22 ` Don Hopkins
2017-10-07 13:30 ` Ron Natalie
2017-10-07 13:34 ` Don Hopkins
2017-10-07 14:12 ` Larry McVoy
2017-10-07 14:21 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-10-05 10:43 ` Russell Page
2017-10-05 10:54 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-10-05 22:38 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2017-10-05 10:53 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
2017-10-06 16:01 ` Dario Niedermann
2017-10-06 16:48 ` George Michaelson
2017-10-06 16:54 ` Warner Losh
2017-10-06 22:25 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-10-06 22:58 ` jason-tuhs
2017-10-06 23:28 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-10-07 2:33 ` Ron Natalie [this message]
2017-10-07 2:40 ` George Michaelson
2017-10-07 2:48 ` Ron Natalie
2017-10-07 2:55 ` George Michaelson
2017-10-07 2:59 ` George Michaelson
2017-10-07 12:21 ` Don Hopkins
2017-10-07 14:17 Noel Chiappa
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