[TUHS] hello, world

Armando Stettner aps at ieee.org
Tue Dec 27 07:53:11 AEST 2011


I, of course, liked the warning from dump(1): "Are you sure you know what you are doing?"

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Begin forwarded message:

> From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon at orthanc.ca>
> Subject: Re: [TUHS] hello, world
> Date: December 26, 2011 4:20:38 PM EST
> To: Warren Toomey <wkt at tuhs.org>
> Cc: tuhs at tuhs.org, Norman Wilson <norman at oclsc.org>
> 
> 
> On 2011-12-26, at 13:11 PM, Warren Toomey wrote:
> 
>> Yes, a good reminder on the power that programming brings us. A question
>> though: what command would "bring the system down"?
> 
> 'kill -1 1' will bring terror to anyone who had the misfortune of dealing with Xenix.
> 
> I think the writer is getting at how UNIX bypassed the 'i ask you three times' dance.
> 
> --lyndon
> 
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