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In article <18...@haddock.ima.isc.com>, t...@haddock.ima.isc.com (Andrew Tannenbaum) writes:
> 
> Anyway, the OS was RSX11 (or was it RT11, no RSX, I think - don't ask
> me, I was a PDP10 hacker, 11's were teeny toys), around 1976.  RSX had
> provisions for a foreground and background process running simultaneously.
> There was a source code module called RMONFB.MAC (perhaps Realtime
> MONitor Foreground/Background).

Nope, that's RT-11 alright. It's the dual-job version.

The RT-11 guys are famous for interesting quotes. I've never seen actual
commented source; they have to ship source to the OS because you need to
reassemble to set SYSGEN options, but they strip the comments out. However,
their comment stripper is fairly simple and sometimes it misses some, other
times people intentionally put comments in that can't be recognized by the
comment stripper.

For example, I came across this while I was figuring out what the PRO 350
hard disk driver was doing so that I could slap an ST-251 in my pro:

	The DW handler is formally designated the 
	Martin B. Gentry Commemorative Handler
	in recognition of their mutual reduction
	of excessive avoirdupois

And no I've not looked up 'avoirdupois' so that I can figure out what
it means.
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