19 Jan
2020
19 Jan
'20
5:02 a.m.
'Ken Thompson has an automobile which he helped design. Unlike most
automobiles, it has neither speedometer, nor gas gauge, nor any of the
other numerous idiot lights which plague the modern driver. Rather, if the
driver makes a mistake, a giant “?” lights up in the center of the
dashboard. “The experienced driver,” says Thompson, “will usually know
what’s wrong.”'
On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 6:39 PM Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On Wed, 8 Jan 2020, Clem Cole wrote:
Although the famous ? error from the original
version was annoying.
Was it Ken or Dennis who thought of a car with but a single alarm
indicator; "the experienced driver will know what it means".
-- Dave