Time for a laugh: Digital 4.0E announcement

From: Arrigo Triulzi <arrigo_at_albourne.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 23:41:34 +0100 (BST)

Dear all,

have a good laugh and read the 4.0E announcement:

http://www.unix.digital.com/announcements/index.html

clearly a product of the Compaq PC people if you read the bit with:

[...]
Other features include:

[some serious stuff]

        * Default for floppy device increased from 600 to 666

I couldn't help laughing when I read this. Clearly a umask is too hard
to grasp for PC people and it does look really impressive! And what a
brilliant security hole it will be.

I can't wait to sell it to my computer-illiterate boss: "Just
imagine, 66 bits more powerful when accessing the floppy", "Do we need
it?", "Of course, our entire development strategy was focused on such
an improvement!".

Ciao,

Arrigo

-- 
Arrigo Triulzi <arrigo_at_albourne.com>
Albourne Partners Ltd. - London, UK
Received on Thu Oct 22 1998 - 22:42:37 NZDT

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