9 Jan
2006
9 Jan
'06
12:28 p.m.
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"
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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