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| From | Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.os.multics |
| Subject | error message query |
| Date | 2020-04-07 16:45 -0400 |
| Organization | PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC |
| Message-ID | <mddk12rrpn6.fsf@panix5.panix.com> (permalink) |
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
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