Re: TECO on a DEC-System 10

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From: g... Gerard K. Newman
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1990 19:35

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In article <1215@kl-cs.UUCP> jona...@cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight) writes:
>
>Another program called MIC (Macro Interpreted Command) was sort of like
>a shell programming language.  It had a GOTO command and if you typed
>'GOTO HELL' it would respond 'Get Stuffed'.
>
>Now here's a question for all you trivia merchants.  There was another
>editor of the DEC-10 I used called SOS.  It stood for 'Son Of Stopcat'
>I believe.  What or Who was 'Stopcat'?


Son of Stopgap.  Stopgap was an absolutely wretched text editor (so, for
that matter, was SOS ... long live STECO! ;-)

gkn

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From: g...@ucsd.Edu (Gerard K. Newman)
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Subject: Re: TECO on a DEC-System 10
Summary: Stopgap, not Stopcat
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Date: 10 Jan 90 19:35:07 GMT
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