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From: exspes@gdr.bath.ac.uk (P E Smee)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: How do you tell a wizard?
Keywords: flowers, birdies, trees, chirp, tweet, `Arf!'
Message-ID: <1989Nov13.113806.15467@gdt.bath.ac.uk>
Date: 13 Nov 89 11:38:06 GMT
References: <20408@mimsy.umd.edu> <10242@encore.Encore.COM> <20434@mimsy.umd.edu> <1997@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> <739@ontek.UUCP> <15770@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
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In article <15770@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
>% make love
>Make:  Don't know how to make love.  Stop.

Ah.  Under OS/8 (on the PDP-8's, remember them?) 'make' was the command
used to invoke the editor (teco) when making a new file.  The programmer
had decided it would be humourous to catch that, so when you typed:

  make love

it said

  not war

and exited.  Since the 8 was basically a 4K (12-bit word) machine, I used
to resent the lost space.
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