Another Early Unix Story

[Tuna]

That is funny... So this story is so old that some of the people in it
actually speak Latin? Wow... ;)

On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 23:28 -0700, Richard Wilson wrote:
> One of my personal favorites concerns the guys at AT&T who decided to
> put some error messages in the original kernel code in Latin... if you
> ever saw one it was bad news because they were all of a "you should
> NEVER see this error" nature.  A friend who knew Latin got a call from
> someone who was trying to port Unix to a Burroughs Mainframe (don't ask
> me why!) and he had gotten the following error message before the system
> crashed hard:
> 
> Ecce! Hodie natus est pro geminus Radicus!
> 
> The translation: "Behold! Unto us is born a twin to Root!"
> 
> It has made me stop and think about what to put into those error
> messages "that will never be seen...".  They will be seen...
> 
> The Latin error messages are now (appropriately) ancient history.
> 
> Richard Wilson
> 
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