Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-h Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:aeq From: aeq@pucc-h (Jeff Sargent) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: another funny message Message-ID: <503@pucc-h> Date: Tue, 31-Jan-84 08:49:42 EST Article-I.D.: pucc-h.503 Posted: Tue Jan 31 08:49:42 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Feb-84 07:10:21 EST Organization: Purdue University Computing Center Lines: 12 In the dim mists of antiquity, I worked on a GE 255 timesharing system. Like most 60's-vintage GE systems, it prompted with "READY" followed by a line feed or two. If you got the first 3 characters of a command right, the system would execute it, irrespective of the characters following. There was a "SCRATCH" command to blitz all lines out of your work area and start over with a clean slate. Making good use of the 3-character significance feature, I liked to create the following scenario: SCREW YOU (typed by me) READY (GE 255's response) -- Jeff Sargent/...pur-ee!pucc-h:aeq