--- Brian Hechinger <wonko_at_4amlunch.net> wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 06:18:40AM -0700, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> >
> > They used to say the same thing about BSD/VAX coders...
>
> all those unix people are evil!!! *ducking!*
>
> > The charge in 1983 was "char * and an int are the same size..."
>
> equally as evil. ;)
Some historical commentary on the "all the world's a VAX" syndrome:
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/amiga-dev/1994/07/13/0007.html
http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~omri/Humor/ten-commandments.html (cf #10)
http://www.cnam.fr/Jargon/jargon.html?1910 (exhaustive!)
I remember pulling down lots of programs from comp.sources.unix
and comp.sources.games, both for building in their native environment
and for porting to VMS/AmigaDOS/whatever-was-in-front-of-me-at-the-
moment. There were some things that I never did get working (but I
did get Pinfocom, Larn and Ultra-Larn working on non-UNIXy boxen).
-ethan
Received on Thu May 29 2003 - 10:28:01 BST