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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
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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