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From: cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: XYZZY
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Date: 18 Jan 90 13:28:30 GMT
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reb@squid.rtech.com ("REB - Tennessee Lamb") writes:

}Does the word "xyzzy" have an origin earlier than the Colossal Cave adventure
}game? Where exactly did it come from?

I believe that Will just made it up [much as he made up near everything else
in Adventure].  I can ask him, but I'm really quite sure that it was just
random-letters.

  /Bernie\