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From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Cc: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: [TUHS] Re: /usr/mdec
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2022 13:43:48 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221121184348.33A7118C087@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> (raw)

    > From: Dave Horsfall

    > MAINDEC was certainly on all of their standalone diagnostic media

Actually, it was the name for all their diagnostics (usually stand-alone),
dating back to the paper tape days - when that was the only form they were
distributed in. So it makes sense that it's a short form of 'MAINDEC'.

     Noel

             reply	other threads:[~2022-11-21 18:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-21 18:43 Noel Chiappa [this message]
2022-11-21 21:11 ` Dave Horsfall
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-11-27  2:22 Rudi Blom
2022-11-21  3:11 [TUHS] /usr/mdec Norman Wilson
2022-11-21  4:25 ` [TUHS] /usr/mdec Dave Horsfall
2022-11-21  9:56 ` Angelo Papenhoff

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