1 Sep
2021
1 Sep
'21
4:26 p.m.
On Wed, 1 Sept 2021 at 09:49, Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
I believe the line was: *"running **DEC
Diagnostics is like kicking a
dead whale down the beach.*"
As for who said it, I'm not sure, but I think it was someone like Rob
Kolstad or Henry Spencer.
I suspect a grep of some type on some extremely old net.noise archives of
the late 1970s/early 1980s might find it.
This was the earliest reference I could easily find, from
comp.unix.questions in Jan '87, but the author says it's an old joke.
It's
the last post in the thread:
https://groups.google.com/g/comp.unix.questions/c/fFtkBC3TcLc/m/QphFGT7BAfsJ
-Henry
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On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 9:31 AM <arnold(a)skeeve.com> wrote:
...
DEC Diagnositcs would run on a beached whale
?
Anyone remember and/or know?
(It seems to apply to other manufacturer's diagnostics as well, even
today.)
Thanks,
Arnold