fun with Unix

[John B. Milton]

In article <3359 at Portia.Stanford.EDU> paulf at Jessica.stanford.edu (Paul Flaherty) writes:
>In article <13418 at agate.BERKELEY.EDU> link at stew.ssl.berkeley.edu (Richard Link) writes:
>>Come on Ken Ritchie, you could have thought better than 'ls' for 'dir'.
>>You UNIX types who think this kind of drivel is funny, go start a
>>UNIX.LAME.BRAIN.OS newsgroup.
>>Rick Link
>
>I don't know about you, but this was the most hilarious posting I've ever seen
>on net.jokes/rec.humor...:-)

It is not the fault of the UNIX designers, it is the fault of the
MULTICS/GCOS designers, which is where ls (and stty) came from

John
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