From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 12:03:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 12:02:53 -0400 Received: from www.cscw.msu.edu ([35.8.233.178]:61194 "EHLO cscw.msu.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 12:02:42 -0400 To: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads) In-Reply-To: <3B2F769C.DCDB790E@kegel.com> Reply-To: pfaffben@msu.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.3 - "Ushinoya") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Ben Pfaff Date: 19 Jun 2001 12:02:27 -0400 In-Reply-To: Dan Kegel's message of "Tue, 19 Jun 2001 08:58:20 -0700" Message-ID: <878zioe9v0.fsf@pfaffben.user.msu.edu> User-Agent: Chaos/1.13.1 SEMI/1.14.3 (Ushinoya) FLIM/1.14.2 (Yagi-Nishiguchi) APEL/10.3 Emacs/20.7 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) MULE/4.0 (HANANOEN) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dan Kegel writes: > ognen@gene.pbi.nrc.ca wrote: > > > > On an unrelated note: > > > > I noticed the quote below in your message. Is this a true quote or just a > > joke going around? I have tried believing it is just a joke but I am > > scared it is not. > > > > >-- > > > "A Computer is a state machine. > > > Threads are for people who can't program state machines." > > > - Alan Cox > > Alan, did you really say that, or are people taking your name in vain? Actually he left out the apostrophe and didn't capitalize `computer'. See, e.g., http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:myb1i-ixJ0k:web.gnu.walfield.org/mail-archive/linux-kernel/2000-January/3533.html -- "...dans ce pays-ci il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres." --Voltaire, _Candide_