How do you tell a wizard?

[Scott Barman]

In article <20408 at mimsy.umd.edu> kilroy at mimsy.umd.edu.UUCP (Darren F. Provine) writes:
|Anyway, in article <1958 at cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> cliff at cpsc.ucalgary.ca
|	(Cliff Marcellus) writes:
|>In article <4282 at deimos.cis.ksu.edu>, brtmac at hobbes.ksu.ksu.edu
|>	(Brett McCoy) writes:
|>> 
|>>  Wizards do everything right the first time, hence the lack of need for
|>>  any editor.  They do all of their file creation with cat(1V).
|>
|>  Gee.  Did Dennis Ritchie simply do a :
|>
|>  % cat > vmunix.c
|
|Actually it was:
|
|% cat > vmunix.s

Actually, maybe Bill Joy did that since vmunix is BSD

[caveat: was it vmunix under 32V?]

If true, Ritchie would have done:

$ cat > unix.s
^
Correct shell prompt!  :-)

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