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From: yoda@ittatc.ATC.ITT.UUCP (Todd C. Williams [Jedi Knight])
Newsgroups: net.wanted
Subject: Re: Computer Horror Stories
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Date: Thu, 6-Feb-86 10:14:21 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  6 10:14:21 1986
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> I was wondering if anyone out there has some horror stories about the
> computer industry; crashed systems or lost backups.

I have heard from a few people that Bill Joy wrote windows and a help facility
and some other goodies into vi a long time ago, but then there was a head
crash, ans Bill said, "forget it! I'm not going through the hell of rewriting
all that again..."  Has anybody heard that one? 
							-Todd
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