Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!gatech!purdue!i.cc.purdue.edu!j.cc.purdue.edu!pur-ee!iuvax!inuxc!ihnp4!ihuxy!lied From: lied@ihuxy.ATT.COM (Bob Lied) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: SIGOPS Summary: Special Interest Group on Operating Systems Message-ID: <2334@ihuxy.ATT.COM> Date: 10 Jan 88 22:52:54 GMT References: <11156@brl-adm.ARPA> <4558@teddy.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois Lines: 14 In article <4558@teddy.UUCP>, jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson) writes: > >3) ... A Unix wizard who doesn't know what > >SIGOPS is loses five hit points. ... > > I just lost 5 hit points. Can anyone enlighten me? I would have sent > mail, but the return address had too many '%', '@', and '!' characters > in it. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ You just lost 5 more hit points :-). SIGOPS is the Special Interest Group on Operating Systems, an ACM sub-organization. On some variation of UNIX, it is no doubt also the name of a signal generated when an illegal op-code is executed :-). Bob Lied ihnp4!ihuxy!lied