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Article #110Re: Re^2: TECO (was Re: spacewar and TECO)
From: holl... The Polymath
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1989 01:05
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1989 01:05
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In article <41...@scolex.sco.COM> se...@sco.COM (Sean Fagan) writes:
}In article <49...@bbn.COM> cos...@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell) writes:
}>>From article <49...@bbn.COM>, by cos...@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell):
}>>> Whenever this topic comes up, the usual trivia question is to observe that
}>>> 'TECO' is an acronym... but what is it an acronym for?
}
}Type Everything Correctly Once.
}
}After having teco as my only editor for about 1.5 years (on a PDP-11 running
}RSTS/E), I wholeheartedly agree 8-).
Now, now. It wasn't that bad. I wrote my master's thesis on the same
setup. (One of my supporting claims to being a Real(tm) Programmer (-: ).
It wasn't WYSIWYG, but it sure beat doing re-writes on a typewriter. (The
thesis was in psych, BTW. I think my committee gave up and passed it when
they realized I could turn the revisions around faster than they could
read it. (-: )
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!philmtl!philabs!ttidca!hollombe From: holl...@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Re^2: TECO (was Re: spacewar and TECO) Message-ID: <8526@ttidca.TTI.COM> Date: 16 Dec 89 01:05:24 GMT References: <49428@bbn.COM> <288@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> <49526@bbn.COM> <4130@scolex.sco.COM> Reply-To: holl...@ttidcb.tti.com (The Polymath) Distribution: alt Organization: The Cat Factory Lines: 23 Posted: Sat Dec 16 02:05:24 1989 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit