3 Nov
2020
3 Nov
'20
9:53 p.m.
đź‘Ť
On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 10:49 AM Ron Natalie <ron(a)ronnatalie.com> wrote:
This memory just came back to me. There was a UNIX
disribution
(PWB/UNIX?) that had a program called 1.
It printed tis quaint bit of propaganda.
One Bell System. It works.
This was fine until one day I’m at work in a big bull pen computer room
when Bernie, one of my co-workers, shouts.
“What’s all this Bell System crud in the editor?”
My reaction is, “Well, it’s all Bell System crud.” I walk over to his
terminal and find he is typing 1 repeatedly at the shell prompt and getting
the above message. (This was back in the old /bin/ed days where 1 got you
to the top of the file). I had to point out he wasn’t in the editor.
Later that day, the program was changed to say:
You’re not in the editor, Bernie.
This I think made it into one of the BRL releases and occassionally got
inquiries as to who Bernie is.