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Article #4416Re: Oldest File?
From: gr... Greg Cronau1000000
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 1990 06:58
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 1990 06:58
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In article <1990Sep11.2...@dg-rtp.dg.com> dur...@dg-rtp.dg.com (Lindsey Durway) writes: >On Data General AOS/VS systems, you will see that the root >dates from 1967. Do this: > >) f/s/as : <NL> > >This may not be so on AOS/VS-II systems. > >Another fun fact about AOS/VS systems is this: guess what >happens when you type "xyzzy"? No joke--it's written >into the system. > >-- >Lindsey Durway >dur...@dg-rtp.dg.com -or- ...!mcnc!rti!xyzzy!durway >Data General Corp., Research Triangle Park, NC; (919) 248-6166. So, what happens? Does it tell you that you're back in the little building? On a similiar note, I used a machine about 8 years ago that I eventually got a copy of the vedit-86 editor for. Unfortunately, I had no doco. I was eventually able to reconstruct enough usable doco from several days of playing around with key sequences. The editor switched between an insert and a command (:) mode, kind of like VI. Most of the command sequences were 2 letter, and most of those started with "e". So I was trying ea, eb, ec, ed,etc. When I got to "et", it responded with "phone home". gr...@cimage.com
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!samsung!umich!dgsi!gregc From: gr...@cimage.com (Greg Cronau/1000000) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Oldest File? Message-ID: <1990Sep14.065839.7061@cimage.com> Date: 14 Sep 90 06:58:39 GMT References: <996@helens.Stanford.EDU> <0093C876.6AF677E0@robot.nuceng.ufl.edu> <1990Sep11.185630.12634@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> <1990Sep11.220153.20356@dg-rtp.dg.com> Reply-To: gregc@dgsi.UUCP (Greg Cronau/1000000) Organization: Cimage Corp, Ann Arbor, MI Lines: 27 Posted: Fri Sep 14 07:58:39 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit