Subject: Re: Unix
From: Grant Stockly (grant@stockly.com)
Date: Sun May 05 2002 - 14:50:28 AKDT
It dates back to atleast 1994. Still funny. : )
Grant
On Mon, 6 May 2002, Joshua J.Kugler wrote:
> Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 15:39:28 -0800
> From: Joshua J.Kugler <isd@as.uaf.edu>
> To: aklug@aklug.org
> Subject: Re: Unix
>
>
> This is an OLD piece, but still very funny. I think it was release on an
> April 1st many moons ago. Still hilarious to read, though.
>
> j----- k-----
>
> On Monday 06 May 2002 15:22, jsaam@mcc-cpa.com wrote:
> > LOL !! Geeze.. Either these guys "fooled" a lotta people, or Microsoft is
> > truly getting desperate to save itself from the growing *nix IT world :)
> >
> > BTW.. Where is this published?
> >
> > Jon
> >
> > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
> > In an announcement that has stunned the computer industry, Ken Thompson,
> > Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan admitted that the Unix operating system
> > and C programming language created by them is an elaborate April Fools
> > prank kept alive for over 20 years. Speaking at the recent UnixWorld
> > Software Development Forum, Thompson revealed the
> > following:
> <SNIP>
>
>
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