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From: werme@Alliant.COM (Ric Werme)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for Computer Folklore
Message-ID: <2999@alliant.Alliant.COM>
Date: 21 Feb 89 21:02:44 GMT
References: <7143@pyr.gatech.EDU> <6540007@hpcupt1.HP.COM>
Reply-To: werme@alliant.Alliant.COM (Ric Werme)
Organization: Alliant Computer Systems, Littleton, MA
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In article <6540007@hpcupt1.HP.COM> jacka@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Jack C. Armstrong) writes:
>Long, long ago, in a place not far away (SRI, back when it was STANFORD
>Research Institute), we had an SDS940 in the Artificial Intelligence Group.
>I think we had production serial #2 or 3 of these beasts, which were an SDS930
>with a Berzerkly hacked paging box, and an even more hacked 'time-sharing' OS.

)I loaded a major set of OS source on the system and started to look at the 
)comments columns.  You guessed it!  Blank.  Nada.  Frustrated, I set up a
)search of the entire file and found ONE comment.  ONE, in thousands of lines
)of assembly code!

]I've never liked Berkeley students since!

I've always figured AT&T didn't bother to comment Unix source because they were
all Phds who were above them, but I always wondered when Berkeley people
learned to skip comments.  One of the nice things about working on TOPS-10
was that I could read a module and learn a lot about how it worked.

With Unix, you almost have to start at a system call entry and trace down
a routine at a time, no matter how many modules it goes through.  Oh well,
job security has its advantages.
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