[H-GEN] Linux related work in Bris vegas?

[Paul Gearon]

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I know it's bad form to reply to one's own email, but it only occurred to
me after sending it that I realised that I had a specific moral in mind...

On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Paul Gearon wrote:

<Ob MMU-less embedded devices and uCLinux>
> - You get shared memory for free (OK, I will personally flay alive anyone
> I catch doing this.... but it's kinda cool)  :-)

This point is related to the following (taken from the Jargon File):

Tom Knight was one of the Lisp machine's principal designers...

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A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off
and on.

Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: "You cannot fix
a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going
wrong."

Knight turned the machine off and on.

The machine worked.
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Regards,
Paul Gearon

Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum
immane mittam.
(Translation from latin: "I have a catapult. Give me all the money,
or I will fling an enormous rock at your head.")



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