[TUHS] Happy birthday, Dennis Ritchie! [ really sun vs dec/apollo --> X and NeWS ]
Arthur Krewat
krewat at kilonet.net
Fri Sep 15 22:42:11 AEST 2017
On TOPS-10, "make love" says "Not WAR?" - but unlike UNIX make, it
invokes TECO ;)
.MAKE LOVE
not WAR?
*ITHIS IS A TEST
$$
*HT$$
THIS IS A TEST
*
On 9/14/2017 11:16 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Sep 2017, Nemo wrote:
>
>> Oh, I nearly wept when I read this. Building a typical project
>> nowadays is so painful -- the makefile works on one particular Linux
>> distro and woe betide the rest.
>
> Ah, well I remember when "make" was first introduced (in PWB?); I thought
> it was Christmas...
>
> Now, even it has to be modified for various platforms.
>
> Trivia: what does "make love" say on your system? My Mac boringly
> says "make: *** No rule to make target `love'. Stop." and the FreeBSD
> box isn't much better: "make: don't know how to make love. Stop". I
> don't know what my Penguin laptop says because it's currently switched
> off.
>
> Sigh...
>
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