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From: scco@ur-tut.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: DEC error messages (was foo?)
Message-ID: <1005@ur-tut.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 3-Feb-87 11:47:10 EST
Article-I.D.: ur-tut.1005
Posted: Tue Feb  3 11:47:10 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 5-Feb-87 04:51:12 EST
References: <246@polyslo.UUCP> <5426@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Reply-To: scco@ur-tut.UUCP (Sean Colbath)
Organization: Univ. of Rochester Computing Center
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Keywords: Unusual messages

In article <583@fai.UUCP> stevem@fai.UUCP (Steve Minneman) writes:
>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.
>
>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."
>-- 

I worked on a MicroPDP 11/73 running RT-11 this summer.  RT-11 is a
single-user operating system, and had a SHOW command for displaying 
various terminal settings, etc.  When you typed SHOW USERS, the response
was

		You're the only one!

The amusing thing was that we were running TSX+ (multi-user RT-11), so
there actually *were* more users, but the authors of TSX hadn't changed
the code for SHOW.

>
>		Steven A. Minneman (Fujitsu America Inc, San Jose, Ca)
>		!seismo!amdahl!fai!stevem  or !ihnp4!pesnta!fai!stevem

Sean Colbath
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