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From: fair@dual.UUCP (Erik E. Fair)
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Subject: Re: May be offensive to UNIX Users - PLEASE read!
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Date: Mon, 9-Jul-84 21:20:27 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  9 21:20:27 1984
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Q: Why do people on the DEC E-net have to tell bad jokes about UNIX?
A: They ran out of VMESS jokes, because VMESS is just one bad joke!

Q: Why do people on the DEC E-net have the time to tell bad jokes about UNIX?
A: Because they're still waiting for their last command to VMESS to complete...

Q: What's the biggest joke of all?
A: Why, DEC Software, of course... (or maybe field circus...)

	There is only one operating system
	that is more gross and offensive than VMESS,
	and its name is ITS.

	Erik E. Fair	ucbvax!fair	fair@ucb-arpa.ARPA

	dual!fair@Berkeley.ARPA
	{ihnp4,ucbvax,cbosgd,decwrl,amd70,fortune,zehntel}!dual!fair
	Dual Systems Corporation, Berkeley, California

P.S.	I've had three ``experiences'' with VMS, all of them bad.
	Then there was that year beating RSTS/E into submission...
	I have much more faith in OS's for DEC machines that were
	NOT written at DEC (e.g. TOPS-20, UNIX). In my opinion,
	AT&T is making the worst mistake of its existence: System V,
	and DEC has made a wonderful decision: 4.2BSD.
	Perhaps IBM will make a similarly enlightened decision for
	its line of computers, although there is some question
	about their hardware being sane enough to hack it.
	There is no question that DEC hardware (with minor nits here
	and there) can hack it quite well. Software? Well, see the last
	of the three riddles...

P.P.S.	Foo on you Mr. Murf @ DEC Engineering Network