"Berkeley California" (Sung to the tune "Hotel California" by the Eagles)
In a dark dim machine room Cool A/C in my hair
Warm smell of silicon Rising up through the air
Up ahead in the distance I saw a Solarian(tm) light
My kernel grew heavy, and my disk grew slim I had to halt(8) for the night
The backup spun in the tape drive I heard a terminal bell
And I was thinking to myself This could be BSD or USL
Then they started a lawsuit
And they showed me the way
There were salesmen down the corridor I thought I heard them say
Welcome to Berkeley California Such a lovely place Such a lovely place
Such a lovely trace(1) Plenty of jobs at Berkeley California
Any time of year Any time of year
You can find one here You can find one here
Their code was definitely twisted
But they've got the stock market trends
They've got a lot of pretty, pretty lawyers That they call friends
How they dance in the courtroom See BSDI sweat
Some sue to remember Some sue to forget
So I called up Kernighan Please bring me ctime(3)
He said We haven't had that tm_year since 1969
And still those functions are calling from far away
Wake up Jobs in the middle of the night Just to hear them say
Welcome to Berkeley California Such a lovely Place Such a lovely Place
Such a lovely trace(1) They're livin' it up suing Berkeley California
What a nice surprise What a nice surprise
Bring your alibies Windows NT a dreaming Pink OS on ice
And they said We are all just prisoners here Of a marketing device
And in the judges's chambers They gathered for the feast
They diff(1)'d the source code listings
But they can't kill -9 the beast
Last thing I remember I was restore(8)'ing more(1)
I had to find the soft link back to the path I was before
sleep(3) said the pagedaemon
We are programmed to recv(2)
You can swap out any time you like But you can never leave(1)
--- Written by David Barr <barr@pop.psu.edu> and Ken Hornstein <kenh@physci.psu.edu> and a little help from Greg Nagy <nagy@cs.psu.edu> and thanks to the lyrics archive at cs.uwp.edu
Database Dated : 9/11/2024 6:56:13 PM