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From: Henry Bent <henry.r.bent@gmail.com>
To: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Who said ...
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2021 10:26:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEdTPBfKsA=Rprw5mR8Mhp9x0rDsTT7uqmZsGK5UOu8m=ScQ9w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2PS8vdEod=hPcTCS=Aebm6zH2tfSxxQdADX=VteJUi_nA@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, 1 Sept 2021 at 09:49, Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:

> I believe the line was:  *"running **DEC Diagnostics is like kicking a
> dead whale down the beach.*"
> As for who said it, I'm not sure, but I think it was someone like Rob
> Kolstad or Henry Spencer.
>
> I suspect a grep of some type on some extremely old net.noise archives of
> the late 1970s/early 1980s might find it.
>

This was the earliest reference I could easily find, from
comp.unix.questions in Jan '87, but the author says it's an old joke.  It's
the last post in the thread:
https://groups.google.com/g/comp.unix.questions/c/fFtkBC3TcLc/m/QphFGT7BAfsJ

-Henry


> ᐧ
> ᐧ
>
> On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 9:31 AM <arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:
>
>> ...
>>         DEC Diagnositcs would run on a beached whale
>>
>> ?
>>
>> Anyone remember and/or know?
>>
>> (It seems to apply to other manufacturer's diagnostics as well, even
>> today.)
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Arnold
>>
>

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-09-01 14:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-01 13:30 arnold
2021-09-01 13:48 ` Clem Cole
2021-09-01 13:55   ` John Cowan
2021-09-01 13:57   ` arnold
2021-09-01 14:11     ` Clem Cole
2021-09-01 14:26   ` Henry Bent [this message]
2021-09-01 15:08     ` Andrew Hume
2021-09-01 16:10 ` Ron Natalie
2021-09-01 16:42   ` Tom Lyon via TUHS
2021-09-01 17:41     ` Lawrence Stewart
2021-09-01 20:00       ` ron minnich
2021-09-01 20:04         ` ron minnich
2021-09-01 21:47           ` Rob Pike
2021-09-01 14:16 Norman Wilson
2021-09-01 14:23 ` arnold
2021-09-01 14:27 ` Clem Cole
2021-09-01 14:29 ` Henry Bent
2021-09-01 14:32   ` Clem Cole
2021-09-01 14:48 ` Chris Torek
2021-09-01 16:00 ` Ron Natalie

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