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From: aps@ieee.org (Armando Stettner)
Subject: [TUHS] hello, world
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:53:11 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1494CB5B-D54F-4FB5-AE4E-0624C2006A30@ieee.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <64876D43-44BD-465F-A003-7783B7C1A23F@orthanc.ca>

I, of course, liked the warning from dump(1): "Are you sure you know what you are doing?"

  aps.


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon at orthanc.ca>
> Subject: Re: [TUHS] hello, world
> Date: December 26, 2011 4:20:38 PM EST
> To: Warren Toomey <wkt at tuhs.org>
> Cc: tuhs at tuhs.org, Norman Wilson <norman at oclsc.org>
> 
> 
> On 2011-12-26, at 13:11 PM, Warren Toomey wrote:
> 
>> Yes, a good reminder on the power that programming brings us. A question
>> though: what command would "bring the system down"?
> 
> 'kill -1 1' will bring terror to anyone who had the misfortune of dealing with Xenix.
> 
> I think the writer is getting at how UNIX bypassed the 'i ask you three times' dance.
> 
> --lyndon
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-26 21:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-25 13:10 Norman Wilson
2011-12-26 21:11 ` Warren Toomey
2011-12-26 21:15   ` Wilko Bulte
2011-12-26 21:20   ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-12-26 21:53     ` Armando Stettner [this message]
2011-12-26 22:13       ` Michael Davidson
2011-12-26 21:28   ` A. P. Garcia
2011-12-27  1:08     ` A. P. Garcia
2011-12-26 21:28   ` Michael Davidson
2011-12-28  0:13     ` Sven Mascheck
2011-12-28  0:20       ` Wilko Bulte
2011-12-28  7:34       ` Warren Toomey
2011-12-28 10:16     ` Ori Idan
2011-12-27  6:11   ` Adam
2012-01-04  3:37     ` Cyrille Lefevre
     [not found]   ` <Pine.BSI.4.64.1112271711290.603@dave.horsfall.org>
2011-12-27 18:01     ` Tim Newsham
2011-12-28  0:53   ` Corey Lindsly
2011-12-28 10:54     ` asbesto
2011-12-28 18:32       ` John Cowan
     [not found] <mailman.1.1325037601.24307.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2011-12-28 20:56 ` David Barto

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