Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site burl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!rcj From: rcj@burl.UUCP (R. Curtis Jackson) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: another funny message Message-ID: <407@burl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 3-Feb-84 00:32:02 EST Article-I.D.: burl.407 Posted: Fri Feb 3 00:32:02 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Feb-84 01:53:43 EST References: <503@pucc-h> Organization: Western Electric, Burlington, NC Lines: 22 Speaking of 3-character uniqueness of OS commands; when I was working on our DEC-10 running TOPS-10 at school I had a friend named Hal who used to amaze the new freshmen. He would ask them, wherever they were, to ask the computer if it knew them by typing their name. They invariably got this: . CURTIS CURTIS? . But, when Hal typed his name, this happened: . HAL . because of the TOPS-10 `HALT' command. It don't take much for freshmen, -- The MAD Programmer -- 919-228-3313 (Cornet 291) alias: Curtis Jackson ...![ floyd clyde ihnp4 mhuxv ]!burl!rcj