9 Jan
2006
9 Jan
'06
12:50 p.m.
At 2:28 PM -0600 1/9/06, Julian Wolfe wrote:
Hahahaha I get it now, and yes, I've used that
ping.
That's like (and I forget which compiler in RSTS did this) where you typed
"make love", and you didn't have a program called "love" it would
respond
with "not war"
No compiler, that was a teco alias.
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> On Behalf Of Doc Shipley
> Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 2:19 PM
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> Subject: Re: What do I call my PDP-11?
>
> Julian Wolfe wrote:
> > I don't get the joke, and I uses Suns. Please to explain?
>
> If you ping another system from a Solaris box, instead of the verbose
> return info from ping you get in most OS's, Solaris simply returns:
>
> <hostname> is alive
>
> There was a huge cult/contingent in the US for many years that
> maintained Elvis Presley had staged his own death, so making your
> Solaris machine say "elvis is alive" is the joke.
>
>
> Doc
John