From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 3d779737 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2020 23:41:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 0A33E9CC18; Thu, 6 Feb 2020 09:41:15 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DADD69CC07; Thu, 6 Feb 2020 09:40:53 +1000 (AEST) Authentication-Results: minnie.tuhs.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key; unprotected) header.d=kilonet.net header.i=@kilonet.net header.b="eyUwu/xk"; dkim-atps=neutral Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 1FFD19CC07; Thu, 6 Feb 2020 09:40:52 +1000 (AEST) Received: from p3plsmtpa06-10.prod.phx3.secureserver.net (p3plsmtpa06-10.prod.phx3.secureserver.net [173.201.192.111]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 235609CB86 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2020 09:40:51 +1000 (AEST) Received: from medusa.kilonet.net ([72.69.214.144]) by :SMTPAUTH: with ESMTPA id zUHqiZgHahA5azUHqiuZDi; Wed, 05 Feb 2020 16:40:50 -0700 Received: from [199.89.231.101] (ender.kilonet.net [199.89.231.101]) by medusa.kilonet.net (8.14.8/8.15.1) with ESMTP id 015Nen72004596 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2020 18:40:49 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kilonet.net; s=default; t=1580946049; bh=EU1sN7iufU7IF6eDlak7w6WWC0kbEoMneo3FBg8aGrE=; h=Subject:To:References:From:Date:In-Reply-To; b=eyUwu/xkzFX01sDdwr/5U5mQu4B/Gfw2SHHhnGHvRQhdzld8v9b+Cm65vn9K6XlrO 5J2jUcl0/fmpm5sR+ehvlMtoPlRS0GtcMDW7ljfyIE2imIBDF1l5j0li2E/Ffw8gnJ jZWxNbaanzF+i1j4ONvCwrHcw8eMS6aboOqtDdlQ= To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org References: <4425E818-B9C3-4BFA-BD69-EA4A35D9772E@optusnet.com.au> <73524e91-0b05-e4b7-524b-1c7247d48846@gmail.com> From: Arthur Krewat Message-ID: <8b706ef6-dbf0-27ba-c343-b693f4c5c8f3@kilonet.net> Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2020 18:40:43 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.4.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfFGbDYsFgsb1Lj9BiWv0olXdJUAbF7OR8bH6mXxfxYPZjp7wW95+tynLn/iHC6C+V8ztdYiYiAHaLEGFxdavES0K9Q7o2vXActAravf3f8FLxVYMWiV1 g6JR3xABRCS4bp/ITJNpzIdTw0ICZI7ZHX7jxu27CZ6YJqoEV3tMEPM9KLf2Q+F26vCkkr+L/GD71g== Subject: Re: [TUHS] keyboards and command names X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" Have't seen mention of TOPS-10, or TOPS-20 for that matter... shortening commands was a great time saver. Problem was, next time they added a command, muscle memory had to relearn. On 2/5/2020 5:20 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote: > On Wed, 5 Feb 2020, Harald Arnesen wrote: > >> Norsk Data's OS Sintran was the same, except that "COLD-START" >> (reboot the OS) was defined twice, so you had to spell it out in full. > > CDC's KRONOS also allowed abbreviated commands; I grew quite fond of > typing "COMMO" for "COMMON" (attach to the system's common area) and > "POO" for "POOL" (can't remember what that does, and my books are long > gone). > > Cough cough...  The above sequence was how you broke into KRONOS: > >     COMMON SYSTEM >     POOL SYSTEM >     (quickly interrupt it) > > Get the timing right, and you were in supervisor mode (or whatever it > was called).  I remember when I was in the terminal room happily > hacking away, > when the shift supervisor and the centre manager happened to walk in, > exclaiming "Security is pffft!".  Terrified, I casually leaned over the > Duckwriter pretending to look for something, to obscure just what I'd > been typing... > > I dimly recall that you could log off other users by (somehow) sending > a ^D to their terminal, but I could be confusing that with something > else (this was decades ago). > > -- Dave >