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Article #517Re: Real floklore -- a computer joke
From: s... Stephen Crawley
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1990 21:57
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1990 21:57
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In article <3...@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> jo...@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu writes: > > I think there was once a system called CHAOS (an operating system, judging > by the trailing OS), and of course, this joke alludes more literally to the > role of programmers in creating chaos. > The operating system of the Cambridge CAP computer was called CHAOS. Sadly, the CAP still sits in the Titan Room with its power off. It depended on the Cambridge Ring world for its file system etc, and the ring world has been dismantled. So much for progress ... -- Steve
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!ukc!cam-cl!scc From: s...@cl.cam.ac.uk (Stephen Crawley) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Real floklore -- a computer joke Message-ID: <1721@gannet.cl.cam.ac.uk> Date: 8 Jan 90 21:57:37 GMT References: <329@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> <239@sixhub.UUCP> <129602@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Sender: ne...@cl.cam.ac.uk Distribution: alt Organization: U of Cambridge Comp Lab, UK Lines: 13 Posted: Mon Jan 8 22:57:37 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit