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Started by Jeff Jonas
Wed, 10 Oct 1990 05:46
Re: Strange and wonderful prog names
Author: Jeff Jonas
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 1990 05:46
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 1990 05:46
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named BOS: Bernie's Operating System. The linker was renamed Groucho, Chico, Harpo, etc... until it got too large for mere mortals and was renamed "GOD". You communicated with GOD with GOD control cards. Euligio Dhananjaya Garcia of Zilog Office Systems wrote his own editor "SOUL: Software Organizing Universal Librarian". The Zilog system 8000 diagnostics are SADIE: something like System and Diagnostic Interactive Executive. Jeffrey Jonas jeffj@synsys.uucp
Re: Strange and wonderful prog names
Author: Jeff Jonas
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 1990 05:50
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 1990 05:50
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The 1130 had a new and improved operation system by Bernie Greenberg named BOS: Bernie's Operating System. The linker was renamed Groucho, Chico, Harpo, etc... until it got too large for mere mortals and was renamed "GOD". You communicated with GOD with GOD control cards. Euligio Dhananjaya Garcia of Zilog Office Systems wrote his own editor "SOUL: Software Organizing Universal Librarian". The Zilog system 8000 diagnostics are SADIE: something like System and Diagnostic Interactive Executive. Jeffrey Jonas jeffj@synsys.uucp
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