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From: ekberg@home.csc.ti.com (Tom Ekberg)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for Computer Folklore
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Date: 14 Feb 89 19:30:37 GMT
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My favorite comes from the DEC IAS/RSX-11D Device Handlers Reference Manual
(Order No DEC-11-OIHRA-A-D) for IAS Version 2 (RSX-11D Version 6B (Version
6.1)) dated 1975.  In appendix A, page 3 in the category titled `NETWORK ACP
CODES' you will find the following line:

	.IOER.   IE.NFW,-69.,<PATH LOST TO PARTNER> ;+001 THIS CODE MUST BE ODD

When DEC came out with VMS, they stopped numbering their error messages.

  -- tom (aisle C-4L), ekberg@csc.ti.com