[TUHS] Unix quix

Rob Pike robpike at gmail.com
Thu Jan 23 09:06:46 AEST 2020


The answers to the quiz are the answers to the quiz. Whether they are
correct may be hard to verify, and cagbef is what my notes have so who
knows?

I've added a word to eliminate the castigation of CAT's hygiene.

-rob


On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 7:50 AM Doug McIlroy <doug at cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:

> The first edition ran on pdp-11, not pdp-7.
>
> Tukey buttered parsnips at the labs, but Brits did
> so several centuries before.
>
> Contrary to urban legend, patent was not invoked to
> justify the Unix pdp-11; word-processing was. The
> quiz does not make this mistake.
>
> The phototypesetter did not smell. The chemicals
> for (externally) devoloping photo paper did.
>
> Shahpazian is Dick Shahpazian; Maranzano is Joe Maranzano.
>
> cagbef addresses out of bounds.
>
> I appreciate Rob's discretion about the Waterloo theft.
>
> Doug
>
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