I was wondering when folks would get around to this...folks, oddball responses you get from the Word spelling checker and thesaurus are NOT EASTER EGGS! For more information please see an explanatory page on www.eeggs.com for an explanation for this odd, but understandable, behavior.
What I'd like to know is why Mr Raymond slams Commodore Electronics (requiescat in pace) so scathingly both in the Jargon File (entry 'chickenhead' -- "notoriously crocky bitty boxes", indeed!) and in/etc/termcap ("Egregious mismanagement" I can agree with, but "Shaky engineering"? In comparison to Apple II's and early IBM PC's? Yes, I know UNIX has been around since the 1960's at least, but c'mon, it was almost-strictly mainframe stuff for a good decade or two -- not like now when J. Random Windozer can casually split off a partition of his hard disk for Linux). I wonder whether Mr Raymond would've been just as nasty toward Amigas as he is toward the 8-bits had they not had their UNIXy command line interpreter.
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I was wondering when folks would get around to this...folks, oddball responses you get from the Word spelling checker and thesaurus are NOT EASTER EGGS! For more information please see an explanatory page on www.eeggs.com for an explanation for this odd, but understandable, behavior.
What I'd like to know is why Mr Raymond slams Commodore Electronics (requiescat in pace) so scathingly both in the Jargon File (entry 'chickenhead' -- "notoriously crocky bitty boxes", indeed!) and in /etc/termcap ("Egregious mismanagement" I can agree with, but "Shaky engineering"? In comparison to Apple II's and early IBM PC's? Yes, I know UNIX has been around since the 1960's at least, but c'mon, it was almost-strictly mainframe stuff for a good decade or two -- not like now when J. Random Windozer can casually split off a partition of his hard disk for Linux). I wonder whether Mr Raymond would've been just as nasty toward Amigas as he is toward the 8-bits had they not had their UNIXy command line interpreter.
Jon Katz, just give the facts? Ha.
Katz will be Katz, and Katz will have fun
Katz will write articles that are way too long
Katz will be Katz, that's the way to do it!
Katz will be Katz, and Katz will bullshit.
(apologies to Timbuk3)