[OT] Humor

[Andrew Gould]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Keith Antoine <kantoine at optusnet.com.au>wrote:

> Bob Hemus wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 20:10 -0600, Michael Hipp wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Bill Campbell wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008, Collins Richey wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> This is probably old news to long-time Debian fans, but:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> $ apt-get moo
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> And who said that developers have no sense of humor.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> I've seen humerous comments as long at I've been doing computers, which
>>>> is
>>>> almost 43 years now.
>>>>
>>>> On the Burroughs large systems, the master fork controller was called
>>>> the
>>>> MotherForker.  There were comments in MCP such as shove it up the stack
>>>> and
>>>> hold on.
>>>>
>>>> The Tandy Xenix kernal hat the infamous she's sucking mud again comment
>>>> when it paniced.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I've been a developer off and on for most of my adult life. I'm pretty
>>> sure a sense of humor is some a developer has to have - even if it's a
>>> pretty dry and nerdy one.
>>>
>>> Michael
>>>
>>>
>> This is kinda OT, but 25 or 30 years ago when I was teaching the
>> California school systems were pushing Commodore 64 and a little later
>> the 128s.  I was fresh from the music teacher job to classroom.  It was
>> a bunch cheaper than the Apples and I'm pretty sure I only knew Bill
>> Gates from his name on tape programs for the Vic 20s we had in our
>> "computer lab".  I thought they were a pretty good system and a school
>> district in SoCal (Perris High School) got a big grant to have a
>> siphistcated attendance program written in MCP.  Whatever happened to
>> the Commodore company and MCP?
>> Bob
>> To General?
>>
>>
>
> I was into Amigas in about 94-95 when Commadore went bust suddenly. Turned
> out that the company had
> been stripped by the then CEO. Cannot remember his name today but know he
> was of middle eastern origin.
>
> --
> Keith Antoine AKA 'Skippy'
> Practising Geriatric retired, Brain in mimi storage.
> School a place where young people are supposed to learn HOW to teach
> themselves
> and nothing else. They learn after leaving school in the big wide world.
>
>
A little "googling" revealed this:

http://www.amiga.org/
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