Re:Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation
by kps on Saturday June 20, 2020 @05:20PM
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That ‘Oregano’ probably belongs to the wrong decade, if not the wrong century. A thread on comp.unix.wizards suggests that it is a reference to a Berkeley developer caught crossing the US–Canada border with a bag of oregano — that was actually oregano.
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Re:Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation
by mojomark on Sunday June 21, 2020 @12:08PM
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"Kaffee : It was oregano, Dave. It was ten dollars' worth of oregano.
Lieutenant Dave Spradling : Yeah, but your client thought it was marijuana.
Kaffee : My client's a moron. That's not against the law.
Lieutenant Dave Spradling : Kaffee, I have people to answer to, just like you do. I'm going to charge him.
Kaffee : With what? Possession of a condiment?"
Re:Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation
by acidburnNSA on Saturday June 20, 2020 @06:41PM
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Oops. Yeah you're right. Wrong century millennium, no less!
They do mention the circuit simulator, SPICE in that same thread. But still, not this oregano for sure.
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.unix.wizards/kFdPoJBpcS...