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Re: Oldest File?

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From: gr... Greg Cronau1000000
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 1990 06:58
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In article <1990Sep11.2...@dg-rtp.dg.com> dur...@dg-rtp.dg.com (Lindsey Durway) writes:
>On Data General AOS/VS systems, you will see that the root
>dates from 1967.  Do this:
>
>) f/s/as : <NL>
>
>This may not be so on AOS/VS-II systems.
>
>Another fun fact about AOS/VS systems is this:  guess what
>happens when you type "xyzzy"?  No joke--it's written
>into the system.
>
>--
>Lindsey Durway
>dur...@dg-rtp.dg.com  -or-  ...!mcnc!rti!xyzzy!durway
>Data General Corp., Research Triangle Park, NC; (919) 248-6166.

So, what happens? Does it tell you that you're back in the little building?
On a similiar note, I used a machine about 8 years ago that I eventually
got a copy of the vedit-86 editor for. Unfortunately, I had no doco. I was
eventually able to reconstruct enough usable doco from several days of
playing around with key sequences. The editor switched between an insert and
a command (:) mode, kind of like VI. Most of the command sequences were 2
letter, and most of those started with "e". So I was trying ea, eb, ec, ed,etc.
When I got to "et", it responded with "phone home".

gr...@cimage.com
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From: gr...@cimage.com (Greg Cronau/1000000)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Oldest File?
Message-ID: <1990Sep14.065839.7061@cimage.com>
Date: 14 Sep 90 06:58:39 GMT
References: <996@helens.Stanford.EDU> <0093C876.6AF677E0@robot.nuceng.ufl.edu> <1990Sep11.185630.12634@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> <1990Sep11.220153.20356@dg-rtp.dg.com>
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