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From: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: Lawrence Stewart <stewart@serissa.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Who said ...
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2021 13:04:44 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP6exYKFG1VN4saCu11UHkoFZqjDec9jgP2s-0a507L9jCaYVA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP6exY+pYPsVLPKwo6i0oCZg+iP65A8hyQPiDL8FkwcNaEgPrQ@mail.gmail.com>

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It's coming back slowly. It was in response to problems with a dh11. DEC
engineer:"did you run diagnostics." Response: as quoted.

The other one: DEC engineer: "dh11 can run at a megabit". Response: "in a
good wind. "

Same person, vague memory is Mike O'Dell? Is that name right?

On Wed, Sep 1, 2021, 1:00 PM ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:

> I first heard it at usenix 1980.
>
> On Wed, Sep 1, 2021, 10:52 AM Lawrence Stewart <stewart@serissa.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Or JCL “It’s as easy to read one file as it is to read 1000 files."
>>
>> On 2021, Sep 1, at 12:42 PM, Tom Lyon via TUHS <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Another fun saying about TSO: "It may be slow, but it's hard to use."
>>
>> Not sure the origin.
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 9:10 AM Ron Natalie <ron@ronnatalie.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> >...
>>> >       DEC Diagnositcs would run on a beached whale
>>> >
>>> >?
>>> >
>>> >Anyone remember and/or know?
>>> >
>>> I believe this was Mike Muuss and he used the term "dead whale" in
>>> deference to the TSO comment.
>>>
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> - Tom
>>
>>
>>

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-01 20:05 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
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 [this message]
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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