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

>     [...] it was a Latin sentence that translated to "Unto the
>     root this day is born a brother".
>
> Is anyone in the Multics universe familiar with the error message in
> question, or is it simply folklore?

There's an article about it on multicians.org:
https://multicians.org/hodie-natus-est.html

The error message doesn't seem to be in the 1982 version of SSTN that
was in the MIT release, although there's a comment in there saying it
was rewritten around 1976:
http://web.mit.edu/multics-history/source/Multics/ldd/bos/source/sstn.alm

-- 
Adam Sampson <ats@offog.org>                         <http://offog.org/>

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