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From: Paul_Green@vos.stratus.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,alt.os.multics
Subject: Re: Linux UFS support and FreeBSD
Date: 31 Dec 1996 23:06:29 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Marlboro Ma.
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In article <5abmte$ldi@news.usf.edu> jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us (Jay R. Ashworth) wrote:  
>John S. Dyson (dyson@freebsd.org) wrote: 
>Does anyone here remember GOD IS DEAD? 
> 
>It seems, as I heard this story, that an old OS (Multics? I forget who 
>told me this one) ran on a machine with a bus signal called Go On 
>Demand. 
> 
>Some smart ass put a message in the kernel to warn people of the case 
>in which 
> 
>Go On Demand  Internal Signal  Doth Excrete Ambiguous Data. 
> 
>Needless to say, it showed up at a customer site. 

Not in any version of Multics that I was familiar 
with...(1969:1980).  Of course, we did have a programmer with 
this particular sense of humor.  Bernie, defend yourself! 

PG 
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