Re: TECO on a DEC-System 10

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From: SL... Roger Ivie
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1990 02:13

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In article <1215@kl-cs.UUCP>, 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'?

No, no, no! That's "Son of Stopgap"! As in the sequel to a stopgap kludge
of an editor that they wrote cause they had to have something running
really quick.

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