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\&'Twas gmtime, and the memory-bound shells
Did glob and vfork in the filesystem.
All misaligned were the user structures,
And the compiler did barf.
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Beware the Fairchild Clipper, son.
The bus that grabs, the alignment that sucks.
Beware the longjmp bug and mourn
Stack backtraces a la vax.
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He took the BCPL compiler in hand
Long time the kernel core dump he sought
He fixed getlogin that gave you su
And put arguments back on the stack.
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-X84! -Z85! Sometimes -O!
The compiler bugs came two by two.
So it's back to ed to bang your head
on the documents it lacks.
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And hast thou tamed the 1/05?
Write me a distfile! Live free or die!
"Live fast..." cried the compiler writers.
VMS, just say no.
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\&'Twas gmtime, and the memory-bound shells
Did glob and vfork in the filesystem.
All misaligned were the user structures,
And the compiler did barf.
.DE