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


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