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Article #930Re: notable computer stories in fiction and the media
From: dav... David Vangerov
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1990 06:29
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1990 06:29
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i have two instances that i'm suprised haven't been mentioned. 1) way back when, when Doonesbury was just getting started, Trudeau had a little series with Mark learning how to program a PDP 11/70 (at least i think it was the 11/70) for a summer job. he didn't have such a good time with it. if anyone has the book "Still a Few Bugs in the System" they can confirm this for us all... i don't think the computer was running Unix, much too early for that. 2) Rick Cook wrote a fantasy novel called "Wizard's Bane" that features such fun things as Emacs, C, Unix. it mentions *sizeof* specifically (put in boldface). later on in the book we get R^2D^2, find, a passwd cracker, some stuff that looks like C, or maybe Lisp, Emac(s), grep, $ prompt, cd, slash, backslash, and other stuff common in Unix. the story centers around a guy who is magically transported into another world where magic reins supreme, and there is no technology. he has nickname of Wiz, which is why he was called into the other world to help fight evil magic. eventually he invents a magic compiler to help in this. very intersting novel. -- ------------------------------+-----------------------+----------------------- E-mail: ...!attctc!sco!davidv | David Vangerov | SCO's opinions? Hell, ...!uunet!sco!davidv | Systems Administrator | they don't even *know* dav...@sco.com | Santa Cruz Operation | about this news group!
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!sco!davidv From: dav...@sco.COM (David Vangerov) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: notable computer stories in fiction and the media Summary: Unix in fiction Keywords: PDP, Unix, Emacs, C Message-ID: <1361@scorn.sco.COM> Date: 15 Jan 90 06:29:59 GMT Reply-To: dav...@sco.COM (David Vangerov) Organization: Apathetic Surf Club (we don't surf and we don't care) Lines: 25 Posted: Mon Jan 15 07:29:59 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit