Article 786 of alt.sys.pdp10: Path: nntp1.ba.best.com!news1.best.com!newsfeed.mathworks.com!portc03.blue.aol.com!newsfeed.skycache.com!Cidera!xfer10.netnews.com!xfer11.netnews.com!netnews.com!newsfeed.wirehub.nl!sienna.impulse.net!azure.impulse.net!not-for-mail Message-ID: <39A20132.5E72A225@cmc.com> Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 21:27:30 -0700 From: Lars Poulsen X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: da,en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10,alt.folklore.computers To: Joe Morris Subject: Re: Assembly language formatting on IBM systems References: <5C570A2368375AAE.9A23F03FF79EEAEB.24938222DEF7D8B8@lp.airnews.net> <8mmbgg$o4p$1@top.mitre.org> <399D6284.9F8205F3@thinkage.ca> <8npiu1$sm8$1@top.mitre.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 14 NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.154.90.88 X-Trace: azure.impulse.net 966918427 195 207.154.90.88 Xref: nntp1.ba.best.com alt.sys.pdp10:786 alt.folklore.computers:4358 Joe Morris wrote: > ...which brings to mind the famous (and real!) line from the UNIX > sources: > * You are not expected to understand this. > */ When quoting this, you should include the following reference: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/odd.html That is a pointer to an article by Dennis Ritchie explaining the context. -- / Lars Poulsen - http://www.cmc.com/lars - lars@cmc.com 125 South Ontare Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93105 - +1-805-569-5277