'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 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