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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Unix vs. OS/2 (was RE: Pournelle on Unix)
Message-ID: <10093@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jan 88 02:45:30 GMT
References: <11156@brl-adm.ARPA> <4558@teddy.UUCP>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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>>3) Kernel hacking is not research.  A Unix wizard who doesn't know what
>>SIGOPS is loses five hit points.  Do the wizards sense extinction?

In article <4558@teddy.UUCP> jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson) writes:
>I just lost 5 hit points.  Can anyone enlighten me?

Kernel hacking *can* be research; it just has to be done *right*.
Actually, sufficiently *wrong* works well too :-) .  But to spoil
the fun, SIGOPS <=> Special Interest Group on OPerating Systems,
one of many ACM (Association for [not `of' ... yet?] Computing
Machinery) SIGs.
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