On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 12:37:35PM +0000, Jim Rosenberg wrote:
> > I don't know if anybody has noticed it, but this entire thread
> > has had the subject of "dickless" (vs diskless) linux. That is going
> > to be fun to look up in the list archiver later on. (:
>
> I don't know if the original poster was making a Famous Historical Allusion
> or not, but the phase "dickless workstation" has a long and venerable
> history. I believe it was one of the heavy-duty gurus back in the halcyon
> days of USENET -- back when it was all passed from machine to machine by
> UUCP -- who inadvertently left the 's' off in a posting about diskless
> workstations. From then on the phrase dickless workstations just plain
> stuck.
Well, according to the Jargon file, it's not accidental at all. It's
described as "an extremely pejorative reference" to diskless
workstations; primarily about their performance.
Cheers,
-- jra
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