Elephant in Cairo (Byte Magazine, 1989)
www-users.york.ac.uk
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A longer version of the Prime Number joke involving a Mathematician, Scientist and Engineer.
All the great ideas were taken by some guys in the 80s.
"He can be reached on BIX as "pcolsen". "
Byte Information Exchange?
Yes.
Some distracted Googling led to the discovery that CIX, the UK equivalent, is still running private forums. After 42 years.