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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsfeeds.sol.net!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!quaking.demon.co.uk!quaking.demon.co.uk!mike From: mike@quaking.demon.co.uk (Mike Richardson) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Betting on Unix Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Date: 7 Mar 1997 07:38:35 GMT Organization: Series 1 Software Message-ID: <5foglr$ea3@quaking.s1s.co.uk> References: <5d3sr2$44n@nntp1.best.com> <5dbapu$t1f$1@nntp2.ba.best.com> <x7n2ti4s7i.fsf@dumbcat.codewright.com> <5dc7qq$hed@phoenix.sysbe.sysgo.de> <5ddcvf$4dh@sun20.ccd.bnl.gov> <330a1d23.2419719@172.15.0.208> <5ef5c8$rgs@arktur.rz.uni-ulm.de> <330B2333.38B6@to.me.please> <330ea403.78621875@mambo> <330c6276.13111256@news.direct.ca> <5ehssl$mtl@milo.mcs.anl.gov> <5f851m$ea$2@alles.intern.julia.de> <331deee1.206246677@news.interlog.com> <331DDE43.5C79@pass.wayne.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: quaking.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: quaking.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 26 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:163600 comp.os.linux.networking:71397 comp.os.linux.setup:101764 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6267 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2763 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:56394 comp.os.os2.advocacy:273281 Michael Edelman (mje@pass.wayne.edu) wrote: : William de Haan wrote: : > : > On 1 Mar 1997 02:41:58 GMT, ralf@Julia.DE (Ralf Baechle) wrote: : > : > >You guys all have never heared of TECO. TECO is infamous for accepting more : > >or less everything as a valid command. Giving TECO to a unknowing user is : > >like giving poisened razor blades to a kid for playing with. : > : > Ah, TECO. No WSYIWYG nonsense for TECO; it's the original YAFIYGI (you asked for : > it, you got it) editor - "cruel, cryptic, unforgiving, and dangerous", as I : > recall. : I thought it was "YGWYD"- You Get What You Deserve. Of course, to run : TECO you need those special red and blue buttons. And if your machine : has the special *gold* button... : Suddenly I feel very old. Old? You're not old unless you edited a live kernel on a Data General Nova 2 with 16 keyswitches and 2 out of 16 address lights dead (so you had a 1-in-4 chance of guessing the right address). OK, you could be even older .... mike