[comp.unix.wizards] SIGOPS

lied@ihuxy.ATT.COM (Bob Lied) (01/11/88)

In article <4558@teddy.UUCP>, jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson) writes:
> >3) ... A Unix wizard who doesn't know what
> >SIGOPS is loses five hit points. ...
> 
> I just lost 5 hit points.  Can anyone enlighten me?  I would have sent
> mail, but the return address had too many '%', '@', and '!' characters
> in it.			^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

You just lost 5 more hit points :-).  SIGOPS is the Special
Interest Group on Operating Systems, an ACM sub-organization.
On some variation of UNIX, it is no doubt also the name
of a signal generated when an illegal op-code is executed :-).

	Bob Lied	ihnp4!ihuxy!lied