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David Thompson (davexunit)'s status on Friday, 09-Sep-2016 21:15:30 CEST David Thompson Lisp Machine Manual, with a note from RMS! http://qttr.at/1gyj - clacke likes this.
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Eugen (gargron)'s status on Friday, 09-Sep-2016 21:16:49 CEST Eugen @davexunit@quitter.se A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: “You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong.” Knight turned the machine off and on. The machine worked. mcscx likes this. -
David Thompson (davexunit)'s status on Friday, 09-Sep-2016 21:19:53 CEST David Thompson "Restrain social decay--help get programmers sharing again." - RMS, 1984 clacke likes this.clacke repeated this. -
clacke (clacke)'s status on Friday, 09-Sep-2016 21:55:46 CEST clacke @davexunit "Those not on the Arpanet may send U.S. mail to [ . . . ]" -
mangeurdenuage (mangeurdenuage)'s status on Friday, 09-Sep-2016 23:19:21 CEST mangeurdenuage RMS announcing GNU
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Bob Mottram (bob)'s status on Friday, 09-Sep-2016 23:40:17 CEST Bob Mottram @mangeurdenuage @davexunit an Empire game! clacke repeated this. -
clacke (clacke)'s status on Friday, 09-Sep-2016 23:43:56 CEST clacke @mangeurdenuage @davexunit Help the URL parser: article.olduse.net/771%40mit-eddie.UUCP -
clacke (clacke)'s status on Friday, 09-Sep-2016 23:47:03 CEST clacke @bob @davexunit @mangeurdenuage
$ guix package -A mpire
Nothing! GNU system still incomplete. -
clacke (clacke)'s status on Friday, 09-Sep-2016 23:53:24 CEST clacke @bob @davexunit @mangeurdenuage
( http://www.catb.org/~esr/vms-empire/ exists, and it's in Debian )