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Re: Egcs Web Pages (Maintainer)
- To: crux at pool dot informatik dot rwth-aachen dot de (Bernd Schmidt)
- Subject: Re: Egcs Web Pages (Maintainer)
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>
- Date: Mon, 19 Oct 98 9:09:14 PDT
- Cc: siliconjackal at iname dot com, egcs at cygnus dot com
> > What exactly is a gnu?
Bernd writes:
> The GNU is a sinister, lurking presence in the deep places of the earth.
Um, that's a grue. "You are likely to be eaten by a grue." :-)
> [those of you who think I've gone mad should go play Infocom's Zork
> trilogy, a classic in text adventures ;)]
The game predates Infocom ... it started as free software. In fact, I
think that the text you quote was originally written at MIT by one of
RMS's old AI Lab cronies, giving your pun a meaning you may not have
suspected. My first experience of the net was in 1978, when a fellow
student dialed a local telephone number, typed some magic incantations to
get onto the ARPAnet, and then logged into a guest account at MIT, where
we played a version of what ultimately became Zork. (Yes, I'm old).