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#! rnews 2009 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!news-out.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.erols.net!feed1.news.erols.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.mindspring.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!192.233.85.167!shore!cam-news-feed2.bbnplanet.com!transfer.stratus.com!usenet From: Paul_Green@vos.stratus.com Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,alt.os.multics Subject: Re: Linux UFS support and FreeBSD Date: 31 Dec 1996 23:06:29 GMT Organization: Stratus Computer, Marlboro Ma. Lines: 25 Message-ID: <5ac69l$n8j@transfer.stratus.com> References: <59ac1t$hq1@news6.noc.netcom.net> <59f7q6$f7a@nesti.newengland.net> <sehari.851367370@eng3.iastate.edu> <32C01EE9.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> <5abmte$ldi@news.usf.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: m49.eng.stratus.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:37887 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33412 alt.os.multics:993 In article <5abmte$ldi@news.usf.edu> jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us (Jay R. Ashworth) wrote: >John S. Dyson (dyson@freebsd.org) wrote: >Does anyone here remember GOD IS DEAD? > >It seems, as I heard this story, that an old OS (Multics? I forget who >told me this one) ran on a machine with a bus signal called Go On >Demand. > >Some smart ass put a message in the kernel to warn people of the case >in which > >Go On Demand Internal Signal Doth Excrete Ambiguous Data. > >Needless to say, it showed up at a customer site. Not in any version of Multics that I was familiar with...(1969:1980). Of course, we did have a programmer with this particular sense of humor. Bernie, defend yourself! PG -- Paul Green | Mail: Paul_Green@stratus.com Senior Technical Consultant | Voice: +1 508-460-2557 FAX: +1 508-460-0397 Stratus Computer, Inc. | Video: PictureTel/AT&T by request. Marlboro, MA 01752 | Disclaimer: I speak for myself, not Stratus.