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 > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss