From: don@DonHopkins.com (Don Hopkins)
Subject: Unix witticisms
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2017 14:21:40 +0200 [thread overview]
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We used to use “rms” as a verb, to log in to somebody else’s account with a well known password, as in “I rms’ed into the box and rebooted it.”
-Don
> On 7 Oct 2017, at 04:33, Ron Natalie <ron at ronnatalie.com> wrote:
>
> "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
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 [this message]
2017-10-07 14:17 Noel Chiappa
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