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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!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-feed1.bbnplanet.com!news1.usf.edu!scfn!jra From: jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us (Jay R. Ashworth) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,alt.os.multics Subject: Re: Linux UFS support and FreeBSD Followup-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,alt.os.multics Date: 1 Jan 1997 16:18:09 GMT Organization: University of South Florida Lines: 30 Message-ID: <5ae2o1$70q@news.usf.edu> References: <59ac1t$hq1@news6.noc.netcom.net> <59f7q6$f7a@nesti.newengland.net> <sehari.851367370@eng3.iastate.edu> <32C01EE9.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> <5abmte$ldi@news.usf.edu> <5ac69l$n8j@transfer.stratus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:37900 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33423 alt.os.multics:995 Paul_Green@vos.stratus.com wrote: : In article <5abmte$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! Well, Bernie's over 45 now, maybe he's no longer able. :-) I might be wrong, maybe that wasn't a Multics story. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us Member of the Technical Staff Unsolicited Commercial Emailers Sued The Suncoast Freenet Pedantry: It's not just a job, it's an adventure. Tampa Bay, Florida http://members.aol.com/kyop/rhps.html +1 813 790 7592