Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Al Dunsmuir" <> | Date | Fri, 12 Oct 2001 15:50:00 -0400 (EDT) | Subject | Re: [Lse-tech] Re: RFC: patch to allow lock-free traversal of lists with insertion |
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On Fri, 12 Oct 2001 09:28:07 -0700 (PDT), Linus Torvalds wrote: >I'm sure that having programmed PPC assembly language, you find it very >natural (IBM motto: "We found five vowels hiding in a corner, and we used >them _all_ for the 'eieio' instruction so that we wouldn't have to use >them anywhere else").
More likely a bad pun on the children's song "Old McDonald had a farm".
I have no insider knowledge, but I've worked for IBM (on S/390) for 22 years, _am_ dyslexic, and enjoy bad puns <GRIN>
Al Dunsmuir
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