merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) (10/28/89)
In article <20408@mimsy.umd.edu>, kilroy@mimsy (Nancy's Fiance) writes: | > Gee. Did Dennis Ritchie simply do a : | > | > % cat > vmunix.c | | Actually it was: | | % cat > vmunix.s No no. He did something like: # cat >unix.s It was some Bezerkley-oids that did the vmunix thing. Does it really take a wizard to remember this? (Durn. I can't remember what the V6 shell prompt was!) Just another person playing a UNIX-wizard on the radio, -- /== Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 ====\ | on contract to Intel's iWarp project, Hillsboro, Oregon, USA, Sol III | | merlyn@iwarp.intel.com ...!uunet!iwarp.intel.com!merlyn | \== Cute Quote: "Welcome to Oregon... Home of the California Raisins!" ==/
davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) (10/30/89)
Real wizards don't mess with C or assembler, they type in the kernel directly with uudecode! -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called 'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see that the world is flat!" - anon