From: ron@ronnatalie.com (Ron Natalie)
Subject: Unix witticisms
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2017 10:26:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <00ff01d33de5$fe5ae050$fb10a0f0$@ronnatalie.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7637D3DE-57D3-447B-AF40-D6644C1BBFDA@gmail.com>
At the 83 USENIX Sun handed out buttons that said the "The Joy of UNIX."
Peter Langston thought that was a bit conceited on Bill's part, so he made
up buttons for the next show that read "The PSL of UNIX", "The DMR of UNIX,"
etc... and handed them out. I still have the Joy of UNIX button, but I
lost my "Ron of UNIX" button shortly after the show.
The "is a trademark of bell labs" generated lots of jokes over the year.
I have somewhere a button that says "Eunuchs are a hallmark of the Ottoman
Empire." At one of the early UUGs someone tried to make "UNIX is a
Trademark of Bell Labs" pencils except the custom pencil place only allowed
18 letters or something so the pencils just ended up saying "UNIX is a
Trademark." I'm not sure I've ever come across another Trademark that
the footnote status was as widely propagated as UNIX's. AT&T's lawyers
even got up at one of the conferences (in a talk about licensing changes or
such) and thanked the community for defending the trademark.
There was a contest back on UNIX-WIZARDS in the day to generate new errno
codes. My favorite was ELECTROLUX - Your code needs cleaning up.
A joke issue of the Computation Center at UT Austin's newsletter
(Universally Plexus at Autism) had an item about UNIX Pipes not permitted in
non-smoking areas. I think that was also the source of the "Cannot fork--
Try again during lunch" quote.
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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 [this message]
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
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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