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From: ron@ronnatalie.com (Ron Natalie)
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 20:47:22 -0400
Subject: [TUHS] Early non-Unix filesystems?
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The nand gate fix wasn't to fix a bug in MTPI but rather to allow access to the user-I from the program itself, primarily to make the *abomination* nargs() function work.

I don't believe DEC ever worried about "fixing" this as none of the DEC OS's and not even the stock UNIXes could even implement such a problem.   You could chew up some processor time, but you couldn't absolutely lock things out.