Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!apple!bionet!ig!uwmcsd1!marque!uunet!munnari!otc!metro!ipso!stcns3!dave From: dave@stcns3.stc.oz (Dave Horsfall) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: UNIX Remembered Message-ID: <888@stcns3.stc.oz> Date: 23 Sep 88 00:37:15 GMT References: <1020003@hpisoa2.HP.COM> <3803@omepd> Reply-To: dave@stcns3.stc.oz (Dave Horsfall) Organization: Alcatel-STC Australia, North Sydney, AUSTRALIA Lines: 17 In article <3803@omepd> mcg@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" -- Dave Horsfall (VK2KFU), Alcatel-STC Australia, dave@stcns3.stc.oz dave%stcns3.stc.OZ.AU@uunet.UU.NET, ...munnari!stcns3.stc.OZ.AU!dave PCs haven't changed computing history - merely repeated it