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From: le@put.com (Louis Epstein)
Subject: Re: New BSDI Pricing
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Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 16:40:11 GMT
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Paul M. Moriarty (pmm@cks.com) wrote:
: 
: > 
: >     All in all, I feel pretty good about my prospects as a UNIX guru.
: > 
: 
: To liberally paraphrase a great UNIX guru, Paul Vixie, a lot of IBM 
: systems programmers felt really good about their prospects at one point
: in the history of computing too.  I wonder what became of them?

They're being called out of retirement to handle the Year 2000 bug,
or hard at work on System/390s...