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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 15:06:24 -0800
From: Rick Stevens <rstevens@vitalstream.com>
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Daniel Phillips wrote:

> On January 28, 2002 11:00 pm, Rick Stevens wrote:
> 
>>I've gotta read up on the kernel's VM system.  I use to write them
>>for a certain three-letter-acronymed company--many, many moons ago.
>>Maybe I'd have some ideas.  Then again, perhaps not.
>>
> 
> Well, you really want to take a trip over to irc.openprojects.net, 
> #kernelnewbies, and there you'll find a number of still-current IBM people 
> happily helping cook up plots to take over Linu^H^H^H^H the world ;-)


Uh, I never said IBM ;-)  I said "a three-letter-acronym" company.
There were several.  The one I dealt with was in Massachusetts, had
a real penchant for three-letter acronyms and used a programming
dialect which was the only single word oxymoron in the English
language (enough hints yet?).

And, no, I wasn't an employee.

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