douglis%sprite.Berkeley.EDU@ginger.Berkeley.EDU (Fred Douglis) (06/07/89)
I am a charter member of the "Sprite" operating system project, so named 4 years ago after various flirtations with some other names. It wasn't meant to have anything to do with the soft drink. We thought. The Berkeley CS Division just announced the name of the new computer science building, "Soda Hall" -- named after a guy named Soda whose estate donated $15 million to the building. Just to make sure there would be no shortage of jokes about the new name of the building, the San Francisco Chronicle said: Although no memorial fountain is planned, Soda Hall will be filled with Dr. Pepper and Sprite. Dr. Robert Pepper is chairman of the Engineering Advisory Board and the computer science division has developed a computer operating system software (sic) known as Sprite. Guess we won't name our next file server "lymon" after all. -- Fred -- Edited by Brad Templeton. MAIL, yes MAIL your jokes to funny@looking.ON.CA Attribute the joke's source if at all possible. I will reply, mailers willing. I reply to all submissions, but about 20% of the replies bounce.