On Sat, Oct 5, 2024, 1:45 PM <arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:

> Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Oct 2, 2024 at 2:27 AM <arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:
> > > Rik Farrow <rik@rikfarrow.com> wrote:
> > > > And my comment about seeing code produced by programmers while doing
> sales
> > > > support dates from 1990. This isn't something new,
> > >
> > > Also true. In the late 80s I was a sysadmin at Emory U. We had a
> > > Vax connected to BITNET with funky hardware and UREP, the Unix RSCS
> > > Emulation Program, from the University of Pennsylvania. Every time
> > > I had to dive into that code, I felt like I needed a shower
> afterwards. :-)
> >
> > Uh oh, lest the UPenn alumni among us get angry (high, Ron!) I feel I
> > must point out that UREP wasn't from the University of Pennsylvania,
> > but rather, from The Pennsylvania State University (yes, "The" is part
> > of the name). UPenn (upenn.edu) is an Ivy in Philly; Penn State
> > (psu.edu) is a state school in University Park, which is next to State
> > College (really, that's the name of the town) with satellite campuses
> > scattered around the state.
>
> Ooops. My bad. Thanks Dan, for the correction.
>
> Either way, the code was awful. :-)
>

Ha, no worries; and I can well believe that the code was awful.

I do wonder if a version of it has survived somewhere; I've personally
never seen it, but there's very little information about it out there
anymore.

        - Dan C.