Xref: utzoo alt.sources.d:1001 alt.folklore.computers:7043 Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!batcomputer!munnari.oz.au!brolga!uqcspe!batserver.cs.uq.oz.au!bigm From: bigm@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (Michael Pilling (The phantom of the Milk Bar)) Newsgroups: alt.sources.d,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: GENERAL WARNING Message-ID: <5664@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> Date: 13 Nov 90 12:31:19 GMT References: <1990Sep29.004107.17548@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> Sender: sarge@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au Reply-To: bigm@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au Followup-To: alt.sources.d Lines: 30 ralph@laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek) writes: >In article <1548@atlas.tegra.COM> vail@tegra.COM (Johnathan Vail) writes: >| >| Two years ago when I was working at DG it was still in AOS. Typing >| `xyzzy' at the prompt returned "Nothing happens". >It's amazing that pieces of the the old `adventure' game are floating >around in OS's! In the Adventure dungeon, if you typed `xyzzy' at >some inappropriate moment, the game would respond with `Nothing >happens'! It's probably still there too! DG did such a good job of simulating 16 bit AOS in 32 bit AOS/VS with call translation within the agent that it never really bothered rewritting most of the CLI, but left it in 16 bit assembler. Strangely enough, xyzzy was a very useful command for debugging and a safe way of putting in a must fill this code in reminder. Also, xyzzy was implemented somewhere outside the general parser, as if you give it any arguments or switches it returns the error NOT A COMMAND OR MACRO unlike all other builtins which will say UNKNOWN SWITCH or UNEXPECTED ARGUMENT. Michael -- _--_|\ Michael John Pilling, bigm@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au / \ Computer Science Department, She was pregnant and, unfortunately, \_.--._/ University of Queensland, the serious bruise to her back v Queensland, 4072 Australia. prompted her to abort.[Daily Sun]