Re: TECO on a DEC-System 10

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From: i... Ian G Batten
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1990 08:39

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jona...@cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight) writes:
> 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'?

It was actually ``Son of StopGAP''.  Early work required an editor, and
the editor was therefore a Stopgap.  Later there was a Brother-in-Law of
Stopgap.  [see JARGON.TXT or ``The Hacker's Dictionary''].

ian

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Ian G Batten, BT Fulcrum - i...@fulcrum.bt.co.uk - ...!uunet!ukc!fulcrum!igb

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Subject: Re: TECO on a DEC-System 10
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