How do you tell a wizard?

Brandon S. Allbery allbery at NCoast.ORG
Sun Oct 29 04:36:50 AEST 1989


As quoted from <1958 at cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> by cliff at cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Cliff Marcellus):
+---------------
| In article <4282 at deimos.cis.ksu.edu>, brtmac at hobbes.ksu.ksu.edu (Brett McCoy) writes:
| > You are both wrong.  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).
| > :-) :-) :-)
| > 
| 
|   DARN!  I guess this means I'm not a wizard...
|   Gee.  Did Dennis Ritchie simply do a :
| 
|   % cat > vmunix.c
| 
|   ???  :-)
+---------------

Uh, confusion.

Ken Thompson:		$ cat > unix.c
Keith Bostic(?):	% cat > vmunix.c

;-) ;-) ;-)

++Brandon
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