UNIX Remembered
Dave Horsfall
dave at stcns3.stc.oz
Fri Sep 23 10:37:15 AEST 1988
In article <3803 at omepd> mcg at iwarpo3.UUCP (Steve McGeady) writes:
|
| Perhaps the founding fathers will consider the immortal error message
| from Ken Thompson's origin chess program:
|
| "eh?"
No - the best one would be "?". Ken (or Dennis, I forget) described
a car which had but a single instrument on its dashboard - a large
question mark which illuminates upon any error condition.
"The experienced driver will usually know what is wrong"
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Dave Horsfall (VK2KFU), Alcatel-STC Australia, dave at stcns3.stc.oz
dave%stcns3.stc.OZ.AU at uunet.UU.NET, ...munnari!stcns3.stc.OZ.AU!dave
PCs haven't changed computing history - merely repeated it
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