Xref: utzoo alt.folklore.computers:8535 comp.misc:11088 comp.unix.internals:1764 Path: utzoo!utgpu!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.misc,comp.unix.internals Subject: Levels of wizards/Jargon and other tripe Message-ID: <1991Jan07.005316.11005@decuac.dec.com> Date: 7 Jan 91 00:53:16 GMT Followup-To: alt.folklore.computers Organization: Digital Equipment Corp., Washington Ultrix Resource Center Lines: 12 Can we all stop cross-posting this D&D nonsense to unix.internals? I can't believe this. unix-wizards was changed to unix.internals because of some mistaken idea that it was going to improve the signal to noise ratio, and now all we're left with is endless discussions about the jargon file. mjr. -- How can something that is almost 2 Megabytes in size be called a "kernel"? The truth in advertising laws should apply to software. Let's call it a "dumping zone". [From the programming notebooks of a heretic, 1990]