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From: rbj@uunet.uu.net (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny
Subject: IBM Humor
Keywords: computer, smirk
Message-ID: <S294.5422@looking.on.ca>
Date: 8 Jun 91 23:30:05 GMT
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In article <S232.6aa0@looking.on.ca> yduj@lucid.com (Judy Anderson) writes:
>
>Never knew IBM programmers were allowed to have a sense of humor!  

This is from the X11R4 distribution. At the end of file
mit/server/ddx/ibm/ppc/ppcRot.c you will find the following code:
 
/* Following functions are added since it seems that the ppc has to solve
just about everybody's problems these days */
  
 void
ppcEndWorldHunger()
{
ErrorF("ppcEndWorldHunger: not implemented yet.\n") ;
ErrorF("\tBlame Paquin, Fortune, Shupak, Weinstein, or Gould.\n") ;
return ;
}

void
ppcRefinanceNationalDebt()
{
ErrorF("ppcRefinanceNationalDebt: not implemented yet.\n") ;
return ;
}

void
ppcEndWarForever()
{
ErrorF("ppcEndWarForever: not implemented yet.\n") ;
return ;
}

void
ppcPayServerHackersWhatTheyreWorth()
{
ErrorF("ppcPayServerHackersWhatTheyreWorth: cannot execute.\n") ;
return ;
}

I also found in a system include file which declared a structure
for some mouse data. They needed to pad the end by two bytes,
and the last field was something like: short CurlyTail.
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