Re: Strange and wonderful prog names

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From: Jeff Jonas
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 1990 05:46

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named BOS: Bernie's Operating System.
The linker was renamed Groucho, Chico, Harpo, etc... until it
got too large for mere mortals and was renamed "GOD".
You communicated with GOD with GOD control cards.

Euligio Dhananjaya Garcia of Zilog Office Systems wrote his
own editor "SOUL: Software Organizing Universal Librarian".

The Zilog system 8000 diagnostics are SADIE:
something like System and Diagnostic Interactive Executive.

Jeffrey Jonas
jeffj@synsys.uucp

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From: jeffj@synsys.UUCP (Jeff Jonas)
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Subject: Re: Strange and wonderful prog names
Summary: oh Sadie, come over here and look at my disk
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Date: 10 Oct 90 05:46:06 GMT
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