From: imp@bsdimp.com (M. Warner Losh)
Subject: [TUHS] 2.11BSD cross compiler
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:14:00 -0600 (MDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100928.211400.135748621321694136.imp@bsdimp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100929023819.GA12919@bitmover.com>
In message: <20100929023819.GA12919 at bitmover.com>
Larry McVoy <lm at bitmover.com> writes:
: Had a TA who could read octal dumps just like they
: were C. Ken Witte - wonder where he is now. I used to bribe him with
: a six pack to come over and help me and he'd have a beer in his hand
: and the line printer output in the other and be laughing at me for some
: retarded thing I had done that he figured out from the octal.
I used to impress the first year C students by typing 'more core' and
then pointing to a random spot on the screen and saying "Oh, you
passed NULL to strcmp here." The sad thing was, I had about a 75% hit
rate... Not really a 'skill' but rather just knowing the common
errors for the current assignment and being a lucky guesser :)
Warner
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-29 3:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-28 5:54 Nick Downing
2010-09-29 0:24 ` Tim Newsham
2010-09-29 0:51 ` Larry McVoy
2010-09-29 2:14 ` John Cowan
2010-09-29 2:38 ` Larry McVoy
2010-09-29 2:59 ` John Cowan
2010-09-29 3:44 ` Larry McVoy
2010-09-30 4:22 ` [TUHS] PDP-8 (was: 2.11BSD cross compiler) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2010-09-30 4:53 ` John Cowan
2010-09-30 13:50 ` Larry McVoy
2010-10-02 3:46 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2010-10-02 21:03 ` Larry McVoy
2010-10-02 21:39 ` [TUHS] PDP-8 M. Warner Losh
2010-10-02 10:06 ` [TUHS] PDP-8 (was: 2.11BSD cross compiler) Wolfgang Helbig
2010-09-29 3:14 ` M. Warner Losh [this message]
2010-09-29 3:17 ` [TUHS] 2.11BSD cross compiler Steve Nickolas
2010-09-29 3:55 ` Larry McVoy
2010-09-29 4:34 ` [TUHS] 6502 and swtch, was " Warren Toomey
2010-09-29 5:13 ` Steve Nickolas
2010-09-30 17:49 ` Tim Newsham
2010-09-29 20:54 ` [TUHS] " Peter Jeremy
2010-09-29 21:34 ` Larry McVoy
[not found] <mailman.2278.1285732537.1039.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2010-09-29 16:20 ` John Finigan
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