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From: "andrew@humeweb.com" <andrew@humeweb.com>
To: Norman Wilson <norman@oclsc.org>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: SCCS roach motel
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2024 16:21:47 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E5C5E4E4-8977-4C8B-805F-37FF6274CB52@humeweb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9838D982B117AE37BCEE88BCF8421F2D.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org>

indeed, it was.

> On Dec 13, 2024, at 2:33 PM, Norman Wilson <norman@oclsc.org> wrote:
> 
> Rob Pike:
> 
>  According to the Unix room fortunes file, the actual quote is
> 
>  SCCS: the source-code motel -- your code checks in but it never checks out. Ken Thompson
> 
> ====
> 
> As a Unix-room-culture aside: I believe this quote was what
> inspired Andrew Hume to call his backup system the File Motel.
> 
> Norman Wilson
> Toronto ON


  reply	other threads:[~2024-12-17  0:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-12-13 22:33 Norman Wilson
2024-12-17  0:21 ` andrew [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2024-12-13 22:57 Norman Wilson
2024-12-13 23:19 ` Larry McVoy
2024-12-13 23:38   ` Warner Losh
2024-12-14  0:53     ` Larry McVoy
2024-12-13 16:52 [TUHS] " Marc Rochkind
     [not found] ` <A6DE3D0A-8ED7-4E82-87CF-F2BC7AE11761@seiden.com>
2024-12-13 17:58   ` [TUHS] " Marc Rochkind
2024-12-13 21:09     ` Dan Cross
2024-12-14  1:11       ` Marc Rochkind
2024-12-14  1:27         ` Dan Cross
2024-12-14  1:39           ` Larry McVoy
2024-12-14  6:20           ` Marc Rochkind
2024-12-14  1:38         ` Larry McVoy
2024-12-13 18:06 ` Larry McVoy
2024-12-13 18:32   ` Marc Rochkind
2024-12-13 18:39     ` Marc Rochkind
2024-12-13 18:49       ` Larry McVoy
2024-12-13 18:55     ` Larry McVoy
2024-12-13 19:55       ` Henry Bent
2024-12-14 18:29         ` arnold
2024-12-14 18:59           ` Larry McVoy
2024-12-13 21:46     ` Clem Cole
2024-12-13 21:22 ` Rob Pike
2024-12-13 21:27   ` Rob Pike
2024-12-13 21:37     ` Aron Insinga
2024-12-13 21:40       ` Aron Insinga
2024-12-14  0:37 ` Luther Johnson

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