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Re: TECO (was Re: spacewar and TECO)

#182
From: a... Al Thompson
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1989 18:20
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In article <1989Dec15....@world.std.com> b...@world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:
>
>>Hmmmm... I always thought that it was Text Editor And Corrector, but yesterday,
>>my girlfriend was quizzing me with PDP-11 trivia cards, and she came across a
>>card which claimed that it stands for *Tape* Editor and Corrector. I have a
>>hard time believing this one... does anyone know anything about this meaning?
>
>I've always heard *Tape* Editor and COrrector. Remember that back when
>TECO was first a thing most files were stored on tapes (microtapes.)

According to my ancient PDP/10 manual it's Text.

[...]
>
>Anyone have any good TECO macros? DEC TECO, I have no access to ITS
>TECO (er, as some would say, REAL TECO.) I once wrote a full screen,
>menu driven help utility for VMS in TECO which used the VMS HELP
>files.  Unfortunately 2.0 screwed it up by using load libraries or
>some such silliness to store HELP files. I never figured out why.

I once worked with a guy who'd had a CS prof tell him that Lisp was "the
only language in which it is possible to code the Towers of Hanoi".  Well,
my friend thought that just a little absurd.  So, every time he learned a
new language he'd code up the Towers of Hanoi and send the listing to his
old prof.  One day he learned TECO.
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From: a...@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Al Thompson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: TECO (was Re: spacewar and TECO)
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Date: 15 Dec 89 18:20:17 GMT
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