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From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] Ken visits Cray Research Inc and finds old bug
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 09:57:46 +1100 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1711130952470.36729@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP6exYLgXZ3inuXZ_AHSo2i=d_pECA0R6vs61XCtitySf+HFjQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, 12 Nov 2017, ron minnich wrote:

> There's a story I heard once in supercomputing circles from the 80s, 
> that Ken visited CRI in Minneapolis, sat down at the console of a 
> machine running the then-new port of Unix to one of the Crays, typed a 
> command, and said something like "ah, that bug is still there." Anybody 
> know what the bug was?

I remember the story too; I think it was one of the text tools (grep, sed, 
I dunno), but yeah, a reference would be nice (at least for the archives).

-- 
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."


  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-12 22:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-12  3:41 ron minnich
2017-11-12 22:57 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2017-11-13  5:10   ` Ken Thompson
2017-11-13 14:14     ` Larry McVoy
2017-11-13 15:13       ` Don Hopkins

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