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From: biesack@xyzzy.UUCP (Dave Biesack)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: computer follies
Message-ID: <1152@xyzzy.UUCP>
Date: 15 Sep 88 14:32:29 GMT
Reply-To: biesack@dg-rtp.UUCP ()
Organization: Data General Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC
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Back in 1981, CS lab sessions at Purdue used a Unix equipped with a line
editor 'led' (The admin people thought vi bogged down the system and
didn't tell people about it).  If the editor was invoked without a
filename, you were placed into insert mode, prompted for the first line
with

New file.
1=

I passed by a novice whose display looked like:

New file.
1=1
2=2
3=3
4=4
5=5
6=6
7=7
8=8

She seemed to think it was quizzing her...  

djb


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	David J. Biesack
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