[Info-vax] Long uptime cut short by Hurricane Sandy

Richard B. Gilbert rgilbert88 at comcast.net
Thu Feb 7 16:44:29 EST 2013


On 2/7/2013 4:33 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> In article <00ACE8D1.2C449D67 at sendspamhere.org>,
> 	VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
>> In article <oeKdndYT1_87So7MnZ2dnUVZ_qydnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
>>> On 2/5/2013 1:37 PM, David Froble wrote:
>>>> Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Based on the popularity of things like the comp.sources.* groups I really
>>>>> don't think NIH was a problem in the Unix world.
>>>>
>>>> Oh, really ????
>>>>
>>>> Then why do we have Linux ????
>>>>
>>>> Or for that matter, why so many different Unixes ????
>>>
>>> Since the plural of index is indices, shouldn't the plural of "Unix" be
>>> written Unices! ;-)
>>
>> Oh no!  I'm having a bad flashback to the VAXes or VAXen debate.
>
> And now you have to throw Vaces in the mix...
>
> bill
>

VAXen is correct!

He says, while throwing incendiaries in profusion!





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