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ge...@mail.ocis.net (Gene Wirchenko) wrote in message news:<3eda6c24...@news.ocis.net>...
> "George R. Gonzalez" <gr...@attbi.com> wrote:
> 
> >Waay back around 1982, I had the rare privilidge to buy one of the
> >pre-peroduction prototypes of the not too famous Convergent Technology
> >workstation.  It was a OEM product, resold under various brands, maybe
> >Burroughs, NCR, and Univac?  Not sure.
> 
> 
> >It had a very advanced operating system for the age.  While PC's barely had
> >PCDOS, this OS had a non-modal screen editor, long file names, a form-based
> >command processor, a fuss-free local area network and file-sharing,
> >spreadsheet, good word processor, FORTRAN, BASIC and Pascal compilers
> >(shoddy Msoft ones). Text windows.,
> >an awesome assembler, system source code, custom build system options, and
> >more that I've forgotten.
> 
> >And oh yes, an addictive and fun "rats maze" game that I played for hours
> >and hours.  Pretty good graphics considering it was all character-font
> >based.
> >
> >Anybody remember that game?  Anybody have the source code to it?
> 
> 
>      CTOS still has the record for my favourite documentation.  It was
> logical and easy to read.  Among OS routines that could be called was
> Crash, which would crash the system.  The document included a note
> that Crash did not return.
> 
Once upon a time, I worked at Convergent (on the not-quite-famous
Generic Print System)...one of the highlights of my career.  I still
remember how horrified I was to go from there to my first "DOS" job,
it felt like a jump into the Stone Age.  I'm still in touch with one
of the tech-writers...she'll appreciate the comment.

Did you ever play RATS with 0% walls?  wild stuff!