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From: stevem@fai.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: DEC error messages (was foo?)
Message-ID: <583@fai.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 28-Jan-87 20:53:21 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 28 20:53:21 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 31-Jan-87 06:14:01 EST
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Reply-To: stevem@fai.UUCP (Steve Minneman)
Organization: Fujitsu America, Inc.
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In article <892@ulowell.UUCP> page@ulowell.UUCP (Bob Page) writes:
>    
>    DEC's OS/8 had three ways to invoke TECO - they were TECO, MAKE and
>    MUNG.  If that in itself was not funny, if you ever typed:
>    	MAKE LOVE
>    You would get the response:
>    	Not war?
>    and TECO would then fire up as usual.
>    
>    Alas - I can find nothing funny about VMS.  DEC goes corporate.

Under RSX-11M+ (at around 1983) when the machine was too busy and you
tried to issue another command to the Master Control Routine, it would
respond with "MCR -- later."
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		Steven A. Minneman (Fujitsu America Inc, San Jose, Ca)
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