17 Jan
2021
17 Jan
'21
10:39 p.m.
yes. but that stems from another tale.
On Jan 17, 2021, at 8:37 AM, ron minnich
<rminnich(a)gmail.com> wrote:
But this is you, right?
"sys/games/lib/fortunes:I'm just andrew. -andrew"
On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 7:19 AM Andrew Hume <andrew(a)humeweb.com> wrote:
>
> i have probed recently about the origins of the “EGREG” (its all greg cession’s
fault) error in Research Unix.
> alas, i recall nothing about this, and can’t recall ever getting the message.
>
> however, courtesy of Dave Presotto (i am fairly sure), there was an equivalent error
> in Plan 9, where more or less randomly, if your user id was ‘andrew’, system calls
would fail.
> and yes, i did feel special; this was one of my lesser contributions to Plan 9.
> this stopped after a while (several to many months, maybe).
>
> andrew hume
>