How do you tell a wizard?
Scott Barman
scott at nastar.UUCP
Fri Oct 27 07:09:26 AEST 1989
In article <20408 at mimsy.umd.edu> kilroy at mimsy.umd.edu.UUCP (Darren F. Provine) writes:
|Anyway, in article <1958 at cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> cliff at cpsc.ucalgary.ca
| (Cliff Marcellus) writes:
|>In article <4282 at deimos.cis.ksu.edu>, brtmac at hobbes.ksu.ksu.edu
|> (Brett McCoy) writes:
|>>
|>> Wizards do everything right the first time, hence the lack of need for
|>> any editor. They do all of their file creation with cat(1V).
|>
|> Gee. Did Dennis Ritchie simply do a :
|>
|> % cat > vmunix.c
|
|Actually it was:
|
|% cat > vmunix.s
Actually, maybe Bill Joy did that since vmunix is BSD
[caveat: was it vmunix under 32V?]
If true, Ritchie would have done:
$ cat > unix.s
^
Correct shell prompt! :-)
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