Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!ted
From: ted@cs.utexas.edu (Ted Woodward)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Hacking the "Welcome to Macintosh." intro
Message-ID: <99@syrian.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 30 Nov 90 21:46:23 GMT
References: <9254@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <2395.275557ac@waikato.ac.nz> <97@victoria.cs.utexas.edu> <1990Nov30.053450.2218@eng.umd.edu>
Distribution: usa
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
Lines: 19

In article <1990Nov30.053450.2218@eng.umd.edu> russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes:
>In article <97@victoria.cs.utexas.edu> ted@cs.utexas.edu (Ted Woodward) writes:
>>Lawrence, you forgot to say what DSAT stood for.  Officially, it stands for
>>'Dire Straits Alert Table', but everybody calls it the 'Deep Shit Alert Table'.

>Inside Mac (looseleaf edition) confirms that it was originally, and is
>_REALLY_ 'Deep Shit Alert Table'

IM Vol II now calls it the 'System Error Alert Table' or the 'System Startup
Alert Table', type DSAT.  And the relevant procedures are DSwhatever....

SOunds like someone weenied out over at Apple...



-- 
Ted Woodward (ted@cs.utexas.edu)

"Mad scientists HATE shopping for shoes!" -- Peaches