Re: TECO (was Re: spacewar and TECO)

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From: t... Ted Sarbin
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 1989 19:06

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In article <3...@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> emcguire@cadfx (Ed McGuire,1410 EB,,) writes:
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>I've got a TECO macro which computes pi to an arbitrary number of
>digits.  The operator types MUNG PI 100 to get 100 digits of pi.  No
>idea who wrote it.  It appears to use the editing buffer as a FIFO.

	It was written by Stanley Rabinowitz (with help from Jim Roth
who actually checked 2000+ digits against a reference). This was in 
1975 or 1976.  At that time Stanley was the Chairman (and, I think,
only member) of the DEC TECO standards working group.

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From: t...@tahoe.unr.edu (Ted Sarbin)
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Subject: Re: TECO (was Re: spacewar and TECO)
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