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In article <1215@kl-cs.UUCP> jona...@cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight) writes:
>>From article <1990Jan9....@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>, by ro...@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Royal Ontario Museum):
>> A few years ago I was working on a DEC System 10 which had an editor
>> called TECO (Text Editor and COrrector, as I recall).  Anyway, .....

YEAH! Real Editors For Real People! Groot!

>Another program called MIC (Macro Interpreted Command) was sort of like
>a shell programming language.  It had a GOTO command and if you typed
>'GOTO HELL' it would respond 'Get Stuffed'.

One release of MIC responded to the "goto hell" command with

?MICERR- halted in purgatory
.


>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'?

StopGAP.

Stopgap was an *evil* *evil* thing that someone hacked out to
ship with the first KA10s as a system editor. It emulated an even
older and more disgusting editor on GE iron and was a royal pain
to use. SOS (what users usually said after using it) was a minor
improvement. It appeared a little before the version of TECO that
DEC swiped from the AI lab at MIT began circulating widely. After
TECO appeared, only pipe stress freaks and crystallography
weenies used SOS.

I wish someone would port TECO to Unix. I miss it.


>  ______    JANET :jonathan@uk.ac.keele.cs     Jonathan Knight,


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