Fun in OpenVMS includes

OpenVMS is a very serious operating system, but sometimes the programmers slipped in a bit of humor ;-)

PPL

The following can be found in PPLDEF.H (part of the parallel processing library):

    
#define PPL$_NORMAL 31555585
/*++                                                                        */
/*  FACILITY:     PPL, RUN-TIME LIBRARY                                     */
/*  EXPLANATION:  ALL IS WELL.                                              */
/*  USER ACTION:  ENJOY YOUR SUCCESS.  ALL THINGS MUST PASS.                */
/*--                                                                        */

(This was reported on INFO-VAX by Martin Vorlaender).

Message facility nicknames

The files sys$system:births.msghlp and sys$system:deaths.msghlp do contain nickname definitions for use by help/message. The header of the files contains the following text, which seems to hold more meaning in a musical context:

! PROJECT:	West Side Story: No.8 Cool (Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim)
!
!			RIFF
!			Boy, boy, crazy boy,
!			Get cool boy!
!			Got a rocket in your pocket,
!			Keep coolly cool, boy!
!			Don't get hot,
!			'Cause, man, you got
!			Some high times ahead.
!			Take it slow and Daddy-o,
!			You can live it up and die in bed!
!			
!			Boy, boy, crazy boy,
!			Stay loose boy!
!			Breeze it, buzz it, easy does it.
!			Turn off the juice, boy!
!			Go, man, go,
!			But not like a yo-yo
!			Schoolboy
!			Just play it cool, boy,
!			Real cool!
!
! AUTHOR:	Leonard Bernstein, Tenth Level Mage
! DATE:		11-September-1991
!

(This was reported on INFO-VAX by Csaba I. Harangozo).

Comments to: Martin P.J. Zinser
Last modified: 20030130