"Our System" -- A Prayer

Collated by Paul Quek (e-mail: quekpaul@hotmail.com), in Singapore

Here's a gem I found in the following webpage, that is, http://world.std.com/~swmcd/steven/memorial.html:

Our system, which art in core, Unix be thy name.
Thy image run, thy syscalls done, in shell as it is in kernel.
Give us this tick our blocks on disk,
And handle our exceptions, as we restart those who SEGV and crash.
And lead us not into kludges, but deliver us from Redmond:
For thine is the network, and the standard, and the mind share,
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