Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA52219 for pups-liszt; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 11:12:11 +1100 (EST) Received: from spektr.eu.org (spektr.teracom.se [195.84.7.43]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA52213 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 11:11:17 +1100 (EST) Received: from localhost (jp@localhost) by spektr.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA64990 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 01:11:12 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jp@spektr.eu.org) Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 01:11:12 +0100 (CET) From: Jorgen Pehrson To: pups@minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Subject: RE: Viral Unix Compiler In-Reply-To: <5AE253C4A378D011A0520000F830A87D5D26AC@sydnt4.syd.cogita.co.nz> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-pups@minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Grant Maizels wrote: > > >> Dennis's Turing Award lecture in the same issue of CACM is worth > re-reading too, > >> especially for those who think that Open Source is a cure for the common > >> cold or that it was invented in the 1990s or 1980s. > > > Could you tell me which year/month this was? Perhaps it's in the ACM > > digital library and I can find it that way. > > > > Thanx! > > > > Bye, Arno. > > > > The URL is http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/ so I suppose it is September > 1995. > > Grant Maizels > grant@maizels.nu If you check the first line on that web page, you'll notice that it says: "Reprinted from Communication of the ACM, Vol. 27, No. 8, August 1984, pp. 761-763. Copyright © 1984, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc." So I'll guess the original print date was August 8 1984. -- Jörgen Pehrson jp@spektr.eu.org http://spektr.eu.org/~jp/ ----------------------------------------------------------- "Bill Gates and Richard Stallman Meet in Airport; Thousands Killed in Resulting Explosion. News at 11."