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Re: [TUHS] Spell - was tmac: Move macro diagnostics away from `quotes'

by Nelson H. F. Beebe

BibTeX entries for the complete contents of the Bell System Technical Journal family are in the TeX User Group archives at http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/bstj1970.bib [change 1970 to other decades, and .bib to .html for live hyperlinks]. The PDF URLs for bstj.bell-labs.com no longer work, and the ones for www.alcatel-lucent.com, such as http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol57-1978/articles/bstj57-6-2155.pdf now redirect to an HTML page. Otherwise, articles are available from the Wiley site at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1538-7305/issues/ but are behind a paywall. There are also copies in the IEEE eXplore database at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?reload=true&punumber=6731002 I tried to find the URLs at https://web.archive.org/, but it does appear to have them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 - - University of Utah FAX: +1 801 581 4148 - - Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB Internet e-mail: beebe(a)math.utah.edu - - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 beebe(a)acm.org beebe(a)computer.org - - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/ - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [TUHS] Spell - was tmac: Move macro diagnostics away from `quotes'

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

> From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" > The PDF URLs for bstj.bell-labs.com no longer work, and the ones for > www.alcatel-lucent.com ... now redirect to an HTML page. With any luck, someone scraped them before they went. I've gotten in the habit of scraping all the Web content I look at, since it has (as above) a distressing tendency to vapourize. Noel

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Re: [TUHS] A man easter-egg (gimme gimme gimme)

by Nemo

On 24 November 2017 at 10:11, Nemo <cym224(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On 22 November 2017 at 03:48, <arnold(a)skeeve.com> wrote (in part): >>> As a former developer and manager, I would be really pissed off if my >>> programmers wasted their time on writing useless frippery instead of >>> quality code, and I would certainly have a little chat with them... >> >> I think that this is totally appropriate for code being developed >> for a paid product. > > I would say this is context-sensitive (industry, customers, ...). One > version of MS Word had an animation of a cartoon monster crushing "WP' > (somewhere in the credits, I recall). > > N. I really must be more careful with replies. The above was meant for TUHS, not just Arnold. N.

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First CRT terminal on Unix?

by Nigel Williams

I stumbled into a reddit post on Unix with the claim about early Unices only being accessed via printing terminals, and it suggested a question to me as to the first “glass teletype” or CRT terminal to be used with Unix. Given the DEC-centric nature of early Unix I would guess perhaps a VT05 or VT52 but I’m keen to know if anyone from those early years recollects what happened and when regarding Unix terminal access alternatives aside from the venerable 33KSR or 33ASR.

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A man easter-egg (gimme gimme gimme)

by Edouard KLEIN

Hi all, An easter-egg in the version of man that is installed on the most popular Linux distros has recently been discovered after being there for 6 years: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405783/why-does-man-print-gimme-gi… It is for example discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15747313 It makes man print 'gimme gimme gimme' if called at "Half past twelve", as in the ABBA song. I check on BSD, but man seems to be a shell script on FreeBSD, so it's immune from the easter egg: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/master/usr.bin/man/man.sh Do you have any UNIX easter-egg stories ? Putting some in, or discovering one... Was this kind of humor tolerated in the professional settings where UNIX first circulated, or was it frowned upon ?

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Re: [TUHS] A man easter-egg (gimme gimme gimme)

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

> From: "Ron Natalie" > After making a stink about it, Proteon removed (or just changed) the > password. We added a 'disable field service password' option to the configuration (for those who wanted to keep FS out), changed the password (since the old one was blown), and stored the new one in encrypted form - hence the message! :-) Noel

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OT: XPL compiler available

by Arnold Robbins

Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!adore2!news.iecc.com!.POSTED.news.iecc.com!nerds-end From: Shoefoot <shoefoot(a)gmail.com> Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Announcing the initial release of an XPL Compiler Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:25:43 -0800 (PST) Organization: Compilers Central Sender: news(a)iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers(a)iecc.com Message-ID: <17-11-001(a)comp.compilers> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Info: gal.iecc.com; posting-host="news.iecc.com:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970"; logging-data="19370"; mail-complaints-to="abuse(a)iecc.com" Keywords: history, translator Posted-Date: 21 Nov 2017 14:37:00 EST X-submission-address: compilers(a)iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request(a)iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com Xref: feeder.eternal-september.org comp.compilers:3921 Announcing the initial release of the XPL to C source translator. The XPL language is a dialect of PL/I created by McKeeman, Horning and Wortman and documented in their book "A Compiler Generator" published in 1970. XPL is a procedural language with structured program flow. The language supports integer arithmetic and logical operations. XPL supports dynamic string variables and powerful character string manipulation features. The compiler and the runtime are written in C. The compiler generates C source so anyone with a working C compiler can compile and execute code written in XPL. XPL and the BNF analyzer were the cutting edge of compiler technology 50 years ago. This release includes both the compiler and the BNF analyzer written in the late 60s. You can download the source here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/xpl-compiler

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Re: [TUHS] A man easter-egg (gimme gimme gimme)

by arnold＠skeeve.com

Warner Losh <imp(a)bsdimp.com> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 9:11 AM, <arnold(a)skeeve.com> wrote: > > > Ian Zimmerman <itz(a)very.loosely.org> wrote: > > > > > On 2017-11-22 01:48, arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote: > > > > > > > Try: > > > > > > > > gawk --nostalgia > > > > > > ~$ gawk --nostalgia > > > awk: bailing out near line 1 > > > Aborted > > > > > > Maybe it still needs a program? > > > > No, that was the joke. Early Unix awk used to say exactly that > > message, on almost any problem, often followed by a core dump. > > > > (I never claimed the easter egg was non-lame.) > > > > There were T-Shirts of this at early conferences as well. Showed a picture > of a vaguely puffin-like bird baling of an airplane made up of what looked > like ascii characters {}()|/... Google is unable find one though, so my > memory may be rusty here... > > Warner I have such a shirt. Maybe I can scan it. :-) Arnold

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Re: [TUHS] APPLIX-L EPROM programmers

by Dave Horsfall

On Thu, 23 Nov 2017, Matthew Geier wrote: > There is a brake computer for the centre bogie and a microprocessor in > the auxillary converter too. Centre bogie? How does that work on curves? Or is it part of the coupler? -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."

7 years, 7 months

UNIX on S/370

by Nemo

Recent commentary on porting led me to read the article on porting UNIX to S/370 (https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/otherports/ibm.pdf) to support 5ESS development because the existing PDP11s were being overwhelmed. I confess to not having this read this before and find it interesting. Any recollections from anyone on the matter. And whatever happened to it? N.

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