6 Oct
2024
6 Oct
'24
6:20 p.m.
On Sat, Oct 5, 2024, 1:45 PM <arnold(a)skeeve.com> wrote:
Dan Cross <crossd(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Ha, no worries; and I can well believe that the code was awful.
I do wonder if a version of it has survived somewhere; I've personally
never seen it, but there's very little information about it out there
anymore.
- Dan C.
On Wed, Oct 2, 2024 at 2:27 AM
<arnold(a)skeeve.com> wrote:
> Rik Farrow <rik(a)rikfarrow.com> wrote:
> > And my comment about seeing code produced by programmers while doing
sales
> > support dates from 1990. This
isn't something new,
>
> Also true. In the late 80s I was a sysadmin at Emory U. We had a
> Vax connected to BITNET with funky hardware and UREP, the Unix RSCS
> Emulation Program, from the University of Pennsylvania. Every time
> I had to dive into that code, I felt like I needed a shower
afterwards. :-)
Uh oh, lest the UPenn alumni among us get angry (high, Ron!) I feel I
must point out that UREP wasn't from the University of Pennsylvania,
but rather, from The Pennsylvania State University (yes, "The" is part
of the name). UPenn (upenn.edu) is an Ivy in Philly; Penn State
(psu.edu) is a state school in University Park, which is next to State
College (really, that's the name of the town) with satellite campuses
scattered around the state.
Ooops. My bad. Thanks Dan, for the correction.
Either way, the code was awful. :-)