Re: TECO on a DEC-System 10

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From: j... John Kallen
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1990 19:20

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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'?

According to 'The Hacker's Dictionary', SOS was the acronym for 
'Son Of Stopgap'. The original editor, Stopgap, apparently was a quick
hack that became a regular feature. The Dictionary describes SOS 
(and Stopgap) in a somewhat... negative manner :-)
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From: j...@csli.Stanford.EDU (John Kallen)
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Subject: Re: TECO on a DEC-System 10
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