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From: shore@theory.tn.cornell.edu (Melinda Shore)
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Subject: Re: ctrl-P
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Date: 17 Apr 91 16:34:08 GMT
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Similarly, the Harris HCX console processors use '~' as the halt
character.  We had an HCX-9 at PSC, and one day I got a call from 
my manager.  He was working at the console in the machine room, and 
he said that every time he referred to his home directory the machine 
crashed ...
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                    Software longa, hardware brevis
Melinda Shore - Cornell Information Technologies - shore@theory.tn.cornell.edu