richard@gryphon.UUCP (08/28/87)
Most of you wizened Apollo sages out there probably know this, but I found
this rather amusing, and so might other neophytes.
In the 9.3 (?) version of the phase II shell of a DN300 ('member those ?)
type '? <RET>' for an amusing anecdote concerning the past lives of
Apollo and its employees.
--
Richard Sexton
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"It's too dark to put the key in my ignition..."peterson@utah-cs.UUCP (John W Peterson) (08/28/87)
...Then there's the message you get back from stcode 220009.
nazgul@apollo.UUCP (08/30/87)
In article <4871@utah-cs.UUCP> peterson@utah-cs.UUCP (John W Peterson) writes: > ...Then there's the message you get back from stcode 220009. I probably shouldn't be posting this, but I can't resist. I found this once when I was trying to[o] quickly write an extensible stream manager. Try saying: stcode 13010008 -nazgul -- ### {mit-erl,yale,uw-beaver}!apollo!nazgul ### apollo!nazgul@eddie.mit.edu ### ### pro-angmar!nazgul@pro-sol.cts.com ### nazgul@apollo.com ### ### (617) 641-3722 300/1200/2400 ### ### I'm not sure which upsets me more; that people are so unwilling to accept responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate everyone else's.
rees@apollo.UUCP (08/31/87)
In the 9.3 (?) version of the phase II shell of a DN300 ('member those ?)
type '? <RET>' for an amusing anecdote concerning the past lives of
Apollo and its employees.
This works on any release, on any node, I think.
The first software that ran on Apollo nodes was developed on Primes, I
believe (it was before my time). I can remember seeing #ifdef PRIME
(or the Pascal equivalent) in various pieces of code back in the old
days.
Also got a kick out of the first time I found Bill Poduska's initials
in some floating point source code.