On 2015-03-05 00:22, Sergey Oboguev wrote:
From: Clem Cole <[email protected]>


While I think it bug Dave and others that people did not like his
favorite system ...

"The New Hacker's Dictionary", MIT Press, 3rd edition:

The "New Hacker's Dictionary" is a prime example of history falsification. You should read the original. It is quite different. ESR did a lot of text substitution and outright changing to fit his view of the world when he "took over".

"Many Unix fans generously concede that VMS would probably be the
hacker's favorite commercial OS if Unix didn't exist; though true,
this makes VMS fans furious."  ;-)

This is just silly. TOPS-20 people are either shaking their heads at the level of uninformedness, or spinning in their graves...

        Johnny

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