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- From: cpl1@kimbark.uchicago.edu (M. d'Nereverri)
- Subject: "I Love LUNIX"
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.055456.16924@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
- Reply-To: cpl1@midway.uchicago.edu
- Organization: The Lunatic Fringe
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 05:54:56 GMT
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- i fell asleep on the couch friday night
- (well, actually about 5:00 AM saturday morning)
- and woke up two hours later with the shreds of a
- dream behind my eyes.
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- in it, Lucille Ball, faced with a dying acting career
- in the early 1970s, went out in search of something to do,
- and, in the end, turned to computing.
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- she ended up at berkeley, closely involved in the development
- of unix, and became one of the premier unix gurus, sort of the
- unix version of grace hopper. her influence on 4.1BSD was
- actually so strong that it was popularly referred to as LUNIX.
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- this entire situation had two effects: first, in the mid and
- late seventies there was a notable influx of middle-aged and
- elderly people into computing, because Lucy was doing it so it
- *must* be good... these people became known for sending fan
- letters containing increasingly arcane unix questions, because
- it guaranteed a personal answer.
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- second, all of her TV shows became cult classics in the hacker
- community.
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- her death was mourned by all of USENET.
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- M.
- gotta stop sleeping on that damned couch, it's rotting my brain
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