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Article #4645Re: Source code quotes
From: g... Gerard K. Newman
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 1990 22:13
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 1990 22:13
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In article <18...@haddock.ima.isc.com> t...@haddock.ima.isc.com (Andrew Tannenbaum) writes: >There was a DEC OS whose sources were absolutely rife with quotes, in >this case, famous quotes which applied to the routines in question >(the sorts of quotes which can be found in Bartlett's). > >Anyway, the OS was RSX11 (or was it RT11, no RSX, I think - don't ask >me, I was a PDP10 hacker, 11's were teeny toys), around 1976. RSX had >provisions for a foreground and background process running simultaneously. You're describing RT-11, not RSX. I may still have my listing at home; I'll go look and post some of it if it doesn't look too onerous to type in. The VMS IDSM (In[t/f]ernals and Data Structures Manual) has a bunch of quotes apropos to the subject of each chapter. Cheers. -- gkn Gerard K. Newman g...@sds.sdsc.edu 619.534.5076 San Diego Supercomputer Center gkn@sdsc.bitnet 619.534.5152 FAX PO Box 85608 sdsc::gkn (27.1/span) San Diego, CA 92186-9784 ucsd!gkn
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!gkn From: g...@ucsd.Edu (Gerard K. Newman) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Source code quotes Summary: I'll look when I get home Keywords: Quotes, RT-11 Message-ID: <19462@ucsd.Edu> Date: 24 Sep 90 22:13:47 GMT References: <25924@shamash.cdc.com> <18177@haddock.ima.isc.com> Organization: San Diego Supercomputer Center Lines: 23 Posted: Mon Sep 24 23:13:47 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit