From: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
To: Ron Natalie <ron@ronnatalie.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] /usr/bin/1
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2020 10:53:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC20D2PpV_YUnH+eYaNwTsHw3fiEsz3mc4K6jE=d7miLH09eBw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ema06dc50b-3a79-44ad-abdf-44b7c649a699@r1.local>
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On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 10:49 AM Ron Natalie <ron@ronnatalie.com> wrote:
> This memory just came back to me. There was a UNIX disribution
> (PWB/UNIX?) that had a program called 1.
> It printed tis quaint bit of propaganda.
>
> One Bell System. It works.
>
> This was fine until one day I’m at work in a big bull pen computer room
> when Bernie, one of my co-workers, shouts.
> “What’s all this Bell System crud in the editor?”
>
> My reaction is, “Well, it’s all Bell System crud.” I walk over to his
> terminal and find he is typing 1 repeatedly at the shell prompt and getting
> the above message. (This was back in the old /bin/ed days where 1 got you
> to the top of the file). I had to point out he wasn’t in the editor.
>
> Later that day, the program was changed to say:
>
> You’re not in the editor, Bernie.
>
> This I think made it into one of the BRL releases and occassionally got
> inquiries as to who Bernie is.
>
>
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2020-11-03 15:40 Ron Natalie
2020-11-03 15:53 ` Clem Cole [this message]
2020-11-03 16:00 ` pobox.com
2020-11-03 20:56 ` John Cowan
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