Xref: utzoo alt.sources.d:997 alt.folklore.computers:6977 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!emory!hubcap!trev From: trev@hubcap.clemson.edu (Trevor Bauknight) Newsgroups: alt.sources.d,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: GENERAL WARNING Summary: xyzzy... Message-ID: <11540@hubcap.clemson.edu> Date: 12 Nov 90 20:29:43 GMT References: <1990Sep29.004107.17548@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> Organization: Clemson University Lines: 22 In article , ralph@laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek) 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'! In Zork I, I tried typing "xyzzy" and the program responded: "Fool." I just got subscribed to this group, and it's quite interesting. I own and operate a TeleVideo 803 CP/M machine which I've had since it was new... all I've ever done is change the oil and filters...excellent machine... makes a great terminal now. -- --------------- Trevor Zion Bauknight | _> ### | trev@hubcap.clemson.edu | | | --------------- "If it keeps on raining, the levee's going to break..."