[Info-vax] What is a "real" Unix ?
Single Stage to Orbit
alex.buell at munted.eu
Tue Sep 5 07:17:27 EDT 2023
On Tue, 2023-09-05 at 10:15 +0000, Bob Eager wrote:
> > > There used to be a story about George Washington's axe.
> > > (The one he cut down the cherry tree with.)
> > >
> > > After many year, two new blades and three new handles, it is
> > > still GW's axe.
> >
> > That analogy is even older than that. The ancient Greeks had
> > Theseus's boat. Replace all the planks in her, is it the same boat?
>
> And the more modern one is Trigger's broom.
I'm now wondering if the Sumerians had similiar. They left written
records. Can't go back in the past any further than that as nothing was
left written down before the Sumerians.
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