How do you tell a wizard?

Nancy's Fiance kilroy at mimsy.umd.edu
Fri Oct 27 00:57:35 AEST 1989


I've always understood `vi' to be an abbreviation for `vile', so I pronounce
it accordingly. . .


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


kilroy at cs.umd.edu          Darren F. Provine          ...uunet!mimsy!kilroy
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