From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: brantleycoile@me.com (Brantley Coile) Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2017 12:36:24 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] Un-released/internal/special UNIX versions/ports during the years? In-Reply-To: References: <20170225141738.f3uauxhasru7gsb3@ancienthardware.org> <20170225143255.GH21761@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: <21DF548F-658F-4327-9221-10559F19DC3C@me.com> Compiles Only Because Of Luck. Completely Obsolete, Badly Outdated Language Even Feldman Likes it (The other FORTRAN.) > On Feb 25, 2017, at 12:31 PM, Clem Cole wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 9:32 AM, Larry McVoy wrote: > Back in the days of 4MB SPARC machines (and 68K machines) we joked​ ​that EMACS stood for Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping. > > ​To me the good news is was if you could laugh at yourself I think it was pretty sign. There were a bunch of them... two more I can remember: > > LISP -- Lots of Insipidly Silly Parens > Multics - Many Unbelievably Large Tables In Core Simultaneously ​ > > There was a Fortran one I've forgotten that started with "Friendly Only" .. > > > >