Xref: utzoo alt.folklore.computers:8445 comp.unix.internals:1731 comp.misc:11062 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!haven!decuac!hussar.dco.dec.com!mjr From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.unix.internals,comp.misc Subject: Monthly posting of the jargon file Message-ID: <1991Jan04.153953.17433@decuac.dec.com> Date: 4 Jan 91 15:39:53 GMT References: <1Z0vZq#97fgP6B90RRn1SXLOS4vBGxl=eric@snark.thyrsus.com> Organization: Digital Equipment Corp., Washington Ultrix Resource Center Lines: 13 eric@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) writes: >---- Cut Here and unpack ---- Is this going to become a monthly or bimonthly service, with all the attendant, "my MULTICS is better than yours" religion wars it seems to spark off? Does this really belong in unix.internals? mjr. -- If the designers of X-window built cars, there would be no fewer than five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which followed the same prinicples - but you'd be able to shift gears with your car stereo. Useful feature, that. [From the programming notebooks of a heretic, 1990]