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[DPARMENTER%HAMPVMS.BITNET: You Nicks]
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Date: Sat, 7 Oct 89 10:14:20 EDT
From: "Robert E. Seastrom" <RS%AI.AI.MIT.EDU@MINTAKA.LCS.MIT.EDU>
Subject: [DPARMENTER%HAMPVMS.BITNET: You Nicks]
Message-ID: <652720.891007.RS@AI.AI.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 89 17:25 EST
From: "Dan Parmenter, wealthy young man about town" <DPARMENTER%HAMPVMS.BITNET at cunyvm.cuny.edu>
To: elbows at bloom-beacon.mit.edu
Re: You Nicks
X-Vms-To: ELBOWS
The following exchange was recorded in DESPERADO, the E-mail journal of
thought, criticism and whatever my dad feels like printing (he edits it) and
is offered without comment. Apologies for those of you who have seen all or
parts of it before.
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X THE UNKNOWN
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From: DECWRL::"jo@ELEPHANT-BUTTE.SCRC.Symbolics.COM"
To: parmenter@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.Symbolics.COM
Subj: Too modest
This is just confirmation of my long-standing suspicion that somewhere
(quite possibly in the tunnels at MIT) there is not just an X-windows cell,
but a sly, sinister, super-powerful "X" agency devoted to foisting all
kinds of strange, savage software on an unsuspecting but mysteriously
willing-to-buy-it world. My list so far consists of
X-windows
TeX
UniX
Note the suspicious recurrence of the symbol for the unknown in all
these names. Who knows of others? Or are they "unknown" at this time.
Tut tut, what about Ultrix?
(So how do you market Ultrix? Is it "Almost as bad as UNIX!"? Or "Even
worse than UNIX!!"?)
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From: ERICG::ERICG "Eric Goldstein 20-Sep-1989 1146"
To: CLOSET::T_PARMENTER,ME
Subj: more X
Don't forget NeXT. Would you trust a company headed by a man whose name
sounds like a heading in the newspaper classifieds?
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From: CLOSET::E::EVANS 29-SEP-1989 09:43:26.63
To: closet::t_parmenter
Subj: Unix
In a previous job selling lisp machines, I was often asked about Unix. If
the audience was not mixed gender, I would sometimes compare Unix to herpes
- lots of people have it, nobody wants it, they got screwed when they got
it and if they could they would get rid of it. There would be smiles,
heads would nod and that would usually end the discussion about Unix.
- D
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