9 Mar
2024
9 Mar
'24
1:23 a.m.
A story that Steve Zimmerman once told--and I can’t remember if in-person at a Usenix, on
a mailing list, or on Usenet--was that on some Chinese restaurant menu he found this item:
"Sliced Children with Tomato Sauce". (Note: "children", not
"chicken"!) For fun, Zimmerman tried to order it, asking to be sure it was in
fact sliced children, not sliced chicken. The waiter carefully explained it was a typo,
became very apologetic for disappointing him, etc. :)
Every once in a while I look for that post but I’ve never found it. I wonder if anybody
else from the recalls it from the 80s.
Google says, 'No results found for "sliced children with tomato
sauce".'
FWIW, Here’s a search that turns up a few things related to CCA Emacs:
https://groups.google.com/g/net.emacs/search?q=steve%20zimmerman%20cca%20em…
My recollection is that Zimmerman passed away while relatively young, but hopefully I’m
wrong. I didn’t find him on LinkedIn just now.
On Mar 6, 2024, at 9:50 AM, Clem Cole
<clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
CCA - a.k.a. zimmerman emacs.
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On Wed, Mar 6, 2024 at 11:43 AM ron minnich <rminnich(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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CCA EMACS? That's a name I have not heard in a long time ...
I forgot if I'm not allowed to load images, sorry if I just made a mistake.