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From: john@frog.UUCP (John Woods, Software)
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Subject: Re: The truth about cat
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Date: Wed, 21-Oct-87 20:43:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 21 20:43:00 1987
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In article <48800008@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>, mccarthy@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
> 
> Written  3:47 am  Oct 17, 1987 by dmr@alice.UUCP (Dennis Ritchie)
> >Good grief.  I've been taunted enough.
> >daemon	dates to CTSS whence it came to Multics and Unix.
> >runoff	was Saltzer's very early formatting program on CTSS.  Probably
> >	the later ASCII version on CTSS was called roff, but in any event,...
> Now you're out to taunt us back, eh?  ;-)
> What are you referring to when you use the abbreviation CTSS?  Around here
> it stands for "CRAY Time-Sharing System",

Compatible Time-Sharing System.  Compatible with what, I don't recall.  That
was a time-sharing system developed by MIT people back when time-sharing was
unheard of (I think it was the third or so in operation).  This led to the
MIT AI people developing the Incompatible Time-Sharing system (ITS) for their
PDP-10 computers (and a queer beast it was!).

"Now go away, or we shall taunt you a second time!"

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