George Rosamond writes (20jan2009): copied and pasted from a PDF, plus there were troff translation errors. Src is always better than google! Below are the answers to last the trivia quiz that appeared in the last issue of ;login: . The syntax for the answers is: left to right precedence a|b is a or b a&b is a and b (any order) a!b is a and not b 1. The source code motel: your source code checks in, but it never checks out. What is it? sccs 2. Who wrote the rst UNIX screen editor? irons Volume 9, Number 4 September 1984 7 ;login: 3. Using TSO is like kicking a [what?] down the beach? dead whale 4. What is the lename created by the original dsw (1)? core 5. Which edition of UNIX rst had pipes? third|3 6. What is -=O=-? empire 7. Which Stephen R. Bourne wrote the shell? software|1138|regis 8. Adam Buchsbaum’s original login was sjb. Who is sjb? sol&buchsbaum 9. What was the original processor in the Teletype DMD-5620? mac&32 10. What was the telephone extension of the author of mpx (2)? 7775 11. Which machine resulted in the naming of the “NUXI problem”? series 1|series one 12. What customs threat is dangerous only when dropped from an airplane? belle|chess machine 13. Who wrote the Bourne shell? bourne 14. What operator in the Mashey shell was replaced by “here documents”? pump 15. What names appear on the title page of the 3.0 manual? dolotta&petrucelli&olsson 16. Sort the following into chronological order: a) PWB 1.2, b) V7, c) Whirlwind, e) System V, f) 4.2BSD, g) MERT. cagbef|c a g b e f 17. The CRAY-2 will be so fast it [what?] in 6 seconds? innite|np-complete|p=np 18. How many lights are on the front panel of the original 11/70? 52 19. What does FUBAR mean? failed unibus address register 20. What does “joff” stand for? jerq obscure feature nder 21. What is “Blit” an acronym of? nothing 22. Who was rabbit!bimmler? rob 23. Into how many pieces did Ken Thompson’s deer disintegrate? three|3 24. What name is most common at USENIX conferences? joy|pike 8 September 1984 Volume 9, Number 4 ;login: 25. What is the US patent number for the setuid bit? 4135240 26. What is the patent number that appears in UNIX documentation? 2089603 27. Who satisied the patent ofce of the viability of the setuid bit patent? faulkner 28. How many UNIX systems existed when the Second Edition manual was printed? 10|ten 29. Which Bell Labs location is HL? short hills 30. Who mailed out the Sixth Edition tapes? biren|irma 31. Which university stole UNIX by phone? waterloo 32. Who received the rst rubber chicken award? mumaugh 33. Name a feature of C not in Kernighan and Ritchie. enum|structure assignment|void 34. What company did cbosg!ccf work for? weco|western 35. What does Bnews do? suck|gulp buckets 36. Who said “SEX, DRUGS and UNIX”? tilson 37. What law rm distributed Empire? dpw|davis&polk&wardwell 38. What computer was requested by Ken Thompson, but refused by management? pdp-10|pdp10 39. Who is the most obsessed private pilot in USENIX? goble|ghg 40. What operating system runs on the 3B-20D? dmert|unix/rtr 41. Who wrote find (1)? haight 42. In what year did Bell Labs organization charts become proprietary? 83 43. What is the UNIX epoch in Cleveland? 1969&dec&31&19:00 44. What language preceded C? nb 45. What language preceded B? bon|fortran 46. What letter is mispunched by bcd (6)? r Volume 9, Number 4 September 1984 9 ;login: 47. What terminal does the Blit emulate? jerq 48. What does “trb” stand for (it’s Andy Tannenbaum’s login)? tribble 49. allegra!honey is no what? lady 50. What is the one-line description in vs.c? screw works interface 51. What is the TU10 tape boot for the PDP-11/70 starting at location 100000 (in octal)? 012700 172526 010040 012740 060003 105710 012376 005007 52. What company owns the trademark on Writer’s Workbenchtm Software? at&t communications 53. Who designed Belle? condon|jhc 54. Who coined the name “UNIX”? kernighan|bwk 55. What manual page mentioned Urdu? typo 56. What politician is mentioned in the UNIX documentation? nixon 57. What program was compat (1) written to support? zork|adventure 58. Who is “mctesq”? michael&toy&esquire 59. What was “ubl”? rogue|under bell labs 60. Who bought the rst commercial UNIX license? rand 61. Who bought the rst UNIX license? columbia 62. Who signed the Sixth Edition licenses? shahpazian 63. What color is the front console on the PDP-11/45 (exactly)? puce 64. How many different meanings does UNIX assign to ‘.’? lots|many|countless|myriad|thousands 65. Who said, “Smooth rotation butters no parsnips”? john&tukey 66. What was the original name for cd (1)? ch!dir 67. Which was the rst edition of the manual to be typeset? 4|four 68. Which was the rst edition of UNIX to have standard error/diagnostic output? 5|ve 10 September 1984 Volume 9, Number 4 ;login: 69. Who ran the rst UNIX Support Group? maranzano 70. Whose Ph.D. thesis concerned UNIX paging? ozalp&babaoglu 71. Who (other than the obvious) designed the original UNIX le system? canaday 72. Who wrote the PWB shell? mashey 73. Who invented uucp ? lesk 74. Who thought of PWB? evan ivie 75. What does grep stand for? global regular expression print|g/re/p|g/regular expression/p 76. What hardware device does “dsw” refer to? console&7 77. What was the old name of the “sys” directory? ken 78. What was the old name of the “dev” directory? dmr 79. Who has written many random number generators, but never one that worked? ken|thompson 80. Where was the rst UNIX system outside 127? patent 81. What was the rst UNIX network? spider 82. What was the original syntax for “ls -l|pr -h”? ls -l>"pr -h">|<"ls -l"