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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://social.v.st/users/th/statuses/113510246844820992">Trammell Hudson (th@social.v.st)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 00:21:35 JST</a><a href="https://social.v.st/@th" title="th@social.v.st"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/4580-48-20220811185542.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Trammell Hudson" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Trammell Hudson</a></section><article><p>Unix historians: who changed the /usr/games/lib/fortunes.dat file between 4.1cBSD and 4.2BSD to attribute Ken Thompson instead of Brian Kernighan with creating a car for the experienced driver with a single unlabeled warning light? <a href="https://social.v.st/tags/retrocomputing" rel="tag">#retrocomputing</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4029355#notice-7873785">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-11-20T00:21:35+09:00" title="Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 00:21:35 JST">about 2 days ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://social.v.st/@th/113510246844820992" rel="external" title="Sent from social.v.st via ActivityPub">social.v.st</a></span></span><a href="https://social.v.st/@th/113510246844820992">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/3523082">diff between two versions of the fortune file with the same joke, except that one says "Brian Kernighan has an automobile which he helped design. Unlike most automobiles, it has neither speedometer, nor gas gage, nor any of the numerous idiot lights which plague the modern driver. Rather, if the driver makes any mistake, a giant "?" lights up in the center of the dashboard.  "The experienced driver", he says, "will usually know what's wrong."
" and the other says "Ken Thompson has ...". Both of them are original Unix developers with a reputation for terse programs.</a></label><br><a href="https://social.v.st/system/media_attachments/files/113/510/224/297/196/251/original/948982b8276229a8.png" rel="external">https://social.v.st/system/media_attachments/files/113/510/224/297/196/251/original/948982b8276229a8.png</a></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Trammell Hudson (th@social.v.st)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 00:21:35 JST Trammell Hudson
Unix historians: who changed the /usr/games/lib/fortunes.dat file between 4.1cBSD and 4.2BSD to attribute Ken Thompson instead of Brian Kernighan with creating a car for the experienced driver with a single unlabeled warning light? #retrocomputing
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1. diff between two versions of the fortune file with the same joke, except that one says "Brian Kernighan has an automobile which he helped design. Unlike most automobiles, it has neither speedometer, nor gas gage, nor any of the numerous idiot lights which plague the modern driver. Rather, if the driver makes any mistake, a giant "?" lights up in the center of the dashboard. "The experienced driver", he says, "will usually know what's wrong." " and the other says "Ken Thompson has ...". Both of them are original Unix developers with a reputation for terse programs.
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