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- Path: uu4news.netcom.com!zodiac!szh
- From: szh@zcon.com (Syed Zaeem Hosain)
- Subject: Re: A text file you should know about!!!
- Message-ID: <1996Mar29.171649.17841@zcon.com>
- Sender: szh@zcon.com (Syed Zaeem Hosain)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: zodiac
- Reply-To: szh@zcon.com
- Organization: Z Consulting Group
- References: <COLACE.D651@ucagmh.DIALix.oz.au>
- Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 17:16:49 GMT
-
- In article <COLACE.D651@ucagmh.DIALix.oz.au>, chris.cheek@ucagmh.DIALix.oz.au writes
- on March 28th:
- > T h e V O G O N N e w s S e r v i c e
- >
- >VNS TECHNOLOGY WATCH: [Mike Taylor, VNS
- >Correspondent]
- >===================== [Littleton, MA, USA]
- >
- >COMPUTERWORLD 1 April
- ^^^^^^^
-
- You are posting this a few days early (at least for this part of the
- world), you know! :-)
-
-
- > CREATORS ADMIT UNIX, C HOAX
- >
- > In an announcement that has stunned the computer industry, Ken
- > Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan admitted that the Unix
- > operating system and C programming language created by them is an
- > elaborate April Fools prank kept alive for over 20 years. Speaking
- > at the recent UnixWorld Software Development Forum, Thompson revealed
- > the following:
-
- [rest of post deleted for brevity]
-
-
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