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Modeling paged and segmented memories is tricky business.
                -- P.J. Denning

Mommy, what happens to your files when you die?

Most public domain software is free, at least at first glance.

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        Mr. Jones related an incident from "some time back" when IBM Canada
Ltd. of Markham, Ont., ordered some parts from a new supplier in Japan.  The
company noted in its order that acceptable quality allowed for 1.5 per cent
defects (a fairly high standard in North America at the time).
        The Japanese sent the order, with a few parts packaged separately in
plastic. The accompanying letter said: "We don't know why you want 1.5 per
cent defective parts, but for your convenience, we've packed them separately."
                -- Excerpted from an article in The (Toronto) Globe and Mail

MSDOS is not dead, it just smells that way.
                -- Henry Spencer

Much of the excitement we get out of our work is that we don't really
know what we are doing.
                -- E. Dijkstra

Multics is security spelled sideways.