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Joakim Olsson |
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Subject: |
www/fun/jokes unix-hoax.html |
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Date: |
Mon, 04 Jun 2007 22:14:10 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Joakim Olsson <jocke> 07/06/04 22:14:09
Modified files:
fun/jokes : unix-hoax.html
Log message:
Fixed invalid.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/fun/jokes/unix-hoax.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.5&r2=1.6
Patches:
Index: unix-hoax.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/fun/jokes/unix-hoax.html,v
retrieving revision 1.5
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -b -r1.5 -r1.6
--- unix-hoax.html 7 Feb 2007 02:35:05 -0000 1.5
+++ unix-hoax.html 4 Jun 2007 22:14:03 -0000 1.6
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Unix-hoax - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)</TITLE>
<LINK REV="made" HREF="mailto:address@hidden";>
+<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#1F00FF" ALINK="#FF0000"
VLINK="#9900DD">
@@ -12,9 +13,7 @@
ALT=" [colorful rounded image of the Head of a GNU]"
WIDTH="153" HEIGHT="128"></A>
-<P>
<HR>
-</P>
<PRE>
<!-- When using this boilerplate, remember to replace the
@@ -36,10 +35,10 @@
Fools prank kept alive for over 20 years. Speaking at the recent
UnixWorld Software Development Forum, Thompson revealed the following:
- "In 1969, AT&&T had just terminated their work with the GE/Honeywell/AT&&T
- Multics project. Brian and I had just started working with an early
- release of Pascal from Professor Nichlaus Wirth's ETH labs in
- Switzerland and we were impressed with its elegant simplicity and
+ "In 1969, AT&&T had just terminated their work with the
+ GE/Honeywell/AT&&T Multics project. Brian and I had just started
+ working with an early release of Pascal from Professor Nichlaus Wirth's
ETH
+ labs in Switzerland and we were impressed with its elegant simplicity and
power. Dennis had just finished reading 'Bored of the Rings', a
hilarious National Lampoon parody of the great Tolkien 'Lord of the
Rings' trilogy. As a lark, we decided to do parodies of the Multics
@@ -58,7 +57,7 @@
To think that modern programmers would try to use a language that
allowed such a statement was beyond our comprehension! We actually
thought of selling this to the Soviets to set their computer science
- progress back 20 or more years. Imagine our surprise when AT&&T and
+ progress back 20 or more years. Imagine our surprise when AT&&T and
other US corporations actually began trying to use Unix and C! It has
taken them 20 years to develop enough expertise to generate even
marginally useful applications using this 1960's technological parody,
@@ -68,7 +67,7 @@
few years and feel really guilty about the chaos, confusion and truly
bad programming that have resulted from our silly prank so long ago."
- Major Unix and C vendors and customers, including AT&&T, Microsoft,
+ Major Unix and C vendors and customers, including AT&&T, Microsoft,
Hewlett-Packard, GTE, NCR, and DEC have refused comment at this time.
Borland International, a leading vendor of Pascal and C tools,
including the popular Turbo Pascal, Turbo C and Turbo C++, stated they
@@ -91,9 +90,7 @@
</PRE>
-<P>
<HR>
-</P>
<P>
<A HREF="/fun/humor.html">Other humor</A>
@@ -142,7 +139,7 @@
<P>
Updated:
<!-- hhmts start -->
-$Date: 2007/02/07 02:35:05 $ $Author: mattl $
+$Date: 2007/06/04 22:14:03 $
<!-- hhmts end -->
<HR>
</BODY>
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