From: Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>
To: Doug McIlroy <doug@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Unix quix
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 10:06:46 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKzdPgxvtnO4ELg41L-1heFsODOcM4jRscuqpZuJ6eKdv7eQpg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202001222049.00MKnOOm082086@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU>
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The answers to the quiz are the answers to the quiz. Whether they are
correct may be hard to verify, and cagbef is what my notes have so who
knows?
I've added a word to eliminate the castigation of CAT's hygiene.
-rob
On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 7:50 AM Doug McIlroy <doug@cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> The first edition ran on pdp-11, not pdp-7.
>
> Tukey buttered parsnips at the labs, but Brits did
> so several centuries before.
>
> Contrary to urban legend, patent was not invoked to
> justify the Unix pdp-11; word-processing was. The
> quiz does not make this mistake.
>
> The phototypesetter did not smell. The chemicals
> for (externally) devoloping photo paper did.
>
> Shahpazian is Dick Shahpazian; Maranzano is Joe Maranzano.
>
> cagbef addresses out of bounds.
>
> I appreciate Rob's discretion about the Waterloo theft.
>
> Doug
>
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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-22 20:49 Doug McIlroy
2020-01-22 23:06 ` Rob Pike [this message]
2020-01-23 15:56 ` Leah Neukirchen
2020-01-24 2:44 ` Warner Losh
2020-01-24 14:49 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-24 16:34 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-01-26 0:03 ` Heinz Lycklama
2020-01-24 16:40 ` Warner Losh
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2020-01-24 19:38 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2020-01-24 20:05 ` Bakul Shah
2020-01-22 18:42 Noel Chiappa
2020-01-24 18:57 ` Paul Winalski
2020-01-30 4:00 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-30 6:32 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2020-01-20 20:28 Rob Pike
2020-01-20 21:06 ` Adam Thornton
2020-01-22 9:31 ` Rob Pike
2020-01-22 14:57 ` Dan Cross
2020-01-22 17:54 ` Warner Losh
2020-01-22 18:01 ` Vincenzo Nicosia
2020-01-22 18:21 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-22 19:42 ` Warner Losh
2020-01-22 20:42 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-22 23:10 ` Rob Pike
2020-01-22 23:34 ` Warner Losh
2020-01-22 23:42 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-22 19:00 ` Warner Losh
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