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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!dciteleport.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!qualcomm.com!uwvax!tricia!newsmaster From: Jay.Jaeger@msn.fullfeed.com (Jay R. Jaeger) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 00:57:50 GMT Organization: The Computer Collection Lines: 17 Message-ID: <328e113c.2534507@news.msn.fullfeed.com> References: <55vhpf$q3o@mail1.wg.waii.com> <E0tAts.BAr.0.queen@torfree.net> <56g0mm$gpf@web.nmti.com> <328cb5ad.2528560@news.msn.fullfeed.com> <848076666.19924.0@balti.bankersnet.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: cubeppp.msn.fullfeed.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99f/32.299 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:26462 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1524 alt.folklore.computers:124669 cbh@bankersnet.co.uk (Chris Hedley) wrote: > >The GROPE program, along with the rest of VMS, was written for Sega's >PDP-10 "mainframe" (a rackmounted PC) back in 1988 by Bill Gates and >Alan Turing when they worked together sweeping floors at a Burger King >in Istanbul. > Allright, allright, so you all p*ss on me for being just unbusy enough to read new messages, and for having an ISP with a slow news setup that gets messages out of order, and missed the joke. Hope y'all enjoyed it. --- Jay R. Jaeger The Computer Collection Jay.Jaeger@msn.fullfeed.com visit http://www.msn.fullfeed.com/~cube