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Re: notable computer stories in fiction and the media

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From: dav... David Vangerov
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.

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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
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