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Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> writes:

> In a different forum, someone told the following story:
> 
>     One of the most clever (in several senses) Multics developers, who was
>     working in the innermost recesses of the file system, put in a check for a
>     condition that would be detected during the boot-up sequence -- intended
>     for himself during debugging/development; because it was an "impossible"
>     condition, obviously it would never arise in a released, installed system.
> 
>     So he put in an error message that he could interpret and that amused
>     him. Neither my memory nor my Latin is good enough to be able to reproduce
>     the exact wording, but it was a Latin sentence that translated to "Unto the
>     root this day is born a brother".
> 
>     I probably don't have to tell you the rest of the story.
> 
> Is anyone in the Multics universe familiar with the error message in question,
> or is it simply folklore?
> 
> -- 
> Rich Alderson					  news@alderson.users.panix.com
>       Audendum est, et veritas investiganda; quam etiamsi non assequamur,
> 	  omnino tamen proprius, quam nunc sumus, ad eam perveniemus.
> 									--Galen

I surely won't be the only person to point you to:

  https://multicians.org/hodie-natus-est.html

-- 
Alan Bawden

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