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From: Roger Ivie on 20 Mar 2010 01:28 On 2010-03-20, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > Everyone knows the > Truth. Torvalds created 4BSD, VMS, OS/360, and the other fossils just > to give computer scientists an illusion of history. Sorry, don't believe you. Had Torvalds created VMS, he would have known what "fork" *really* means. -- roger ivie rivie(a)ridgenet.net
From: jmfbahciv on 20 Mar 2010 08:37 Roger Ivie wrote: > On 2010-03-20, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: >> Everyone knows the >> Truth. Torvalds created 4BSD, VMS, OS/360, and the other fossils just >> to give computer scientists an illusion of history. > > Sorry, don't believe you. Had Torvalds created VMS, he would have known > what "fork" *really* means. Fortunately, he learned how TOPS-20 did things and adapted the best. /BAH
From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard on 20 Mar 2010 10:22 > >>> >>> Would Unix used in the seventies and eighties qualify as a first >>> cousin once removed? :-) >>> >> Shhh! The Linux users' calendar has no B.C. equivalent. Don't upset >> them with notions of a time before the Creation. Everyone knows the >> Truth. Torvalds created 4BSD, VMS, OS/360, and the other fossils just >> to give computer scientists an illusion of history. >> > But isn't the Epoch January 1st, 1970? > Linux users also use the POSIX dating system, which purports to show that the world existed before the Creation. Linux users know, however, that there is no proven basis for counting the vibrations of caesium atoms. 1970-01-01 00:00:10 TAI is an ecumenical sop to computer scientists. The true underpinning to the clock is, as every Linux user knows, hwclock --hctosys --localtime.
From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard on 20 Mar 2010 10:46 > >> >> Shhh! The Linux users' calendar has no B.C. equivalent. Don't upset >> them with notions of a time before the Creation. Everyone knows the >> Truth. Torvalds created 4BSD, VMS, OS/360, and the other fossils >> just to give computer scientists an illusion of history. >> > Sorry, don't believe you. Had Torvalds created VMS, he would have > known what "fork" *really* means. > Linux users will tell you that your belief in the existence of a "VMS" that evolved somehow, independently of the Creator, is not an empirical one. Indeed, that you talk of belief at all should be telling you that you are taking a religious position, not a rational one. Computer science has yet to prove the existence of VMS, and this fact is acknowledged by many computer scientists.
From: Hatunen on 20 Mar 2010 13:25
On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:46:34 +0000, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups(a)NTLWorld.COM> wrote: >> >>> >>> Shhh! The Linux users' calendar has no B.C. equivalent. Don't upset >>> them with notions of a time before the Creation. Everyone knows the >>> Truth. Torvalds created 4BSD, VMS, OS/360, and the other fossils >>> just to give computer scientists an illusion of history. >>> >> Sorry, don't believe you. Had Torvalds created VMS, he would have >> known what "fork" *really* means. >> >Linux users will tell you that your belief in the existence of a "VMS" >that evolved somehow, independently of the Creator, is not an empirical >one. Indeed, that you talk of belief at all should be telling you that >you are taking a religious position, not a rational one. Computer >science has yet to prove the existence of VMS, and this fact is >acknowledged by many computer scientists. As God is my witness, I swear that I have not only seen VAXen with VMS but even used them. Yo gotta believe me... -- ************* DAVE HATUNEN (hatunen(a)cox.net) ************* * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * * My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps * |