Ralph Hempel wrote on 19 May 2008 15:23: > Mark J. Reed wrote: >> On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Ralph Hempel <rhempel@> wrote: >>> OT, and probably a stupid question, but is the Dave Korn on this >>> list the same Dave Korn that, ummm, wrote the Korn shell? >> >> Nope. And I used to wonder the same thing, so it can't possibly be a >> stupid question, right? > > I did do some googling before I asked this question and found out > that the "real" Dave Korn is a research fellow at AT&T while "our" > Dave Korn has an email addres at a firm is essentially a fabless > silicon house that specializes in highspeed wireless connectivity.
Hey! I'm the "real" one! He's just an impostor who's cunningly been pre-stalking me by getting his name all over the 'net twenty-odd years before I got here! > But then I found out that the "real" Dave Korn is the primary author of > UWIN, which is where the ksh that "our" Dave Korn is talking about > comes from. Ah, but I wasn't talking about ksh..... I only got dragged into this thread when it went off-topic! > So I got confused again. If it helps, he's the gray-haired older guy and I'm the young and strikingly handsome one :-) > Just to be clear, "our" Dave Korn provides excellent, well considered > answers to questions on the list, so I'm not diminishing his > value at all :-) Maybe, for simplicity's sake, he could be the "real" Dave Korn, and I could be the "surreal" one? > OK, I guess that's enough frivolity on the list. Not nearly enough! That's why we have an entire second list set up, purely for frivolity! And hippos! http://cygwin.com/acronyms#TITTTL > Back to work... Bok bok bok b'k-b'gaaaaaaawwk! <runs around room flapping arms like a chicken> ... oh, wait a minute. Is that one "work" or "psychotic delirium"? I /always/ get those two mixed up! cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
