Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 20:02:25 +0100 From: dgmm <freebsd01@dgmm.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9! Message-ID: <200706052002.25404.freebsd01@dgmm.net> In-Reply-To: <200705311852.OAA06017@login024.unx.sas.com> References: <200705311852.OAA06017@login024.unx.sas.com>
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On Thursday 31 May 2007, Tom Wilson wrote: > I always liked one of the messages from an old version of the VMS (4 or 5?) > C compiler(may not be exactly it, but this was included): > > Bad Code Or the Level I BASIC error messages on a TRS-80. What? How? Sorry? And that's all folks. The entire repertoire of error reporting on Level I Basic :-) Of course, fitting a BASIC interpretor and OS into only 4K of ROM was quite an achievement in itself. I doubt there were many spare bytes for more informative error reports. -- Dave
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