On Nov 3, 2020, at 7:40 AM, Ron Natalie 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. Yes, PWB/UNIX. I seem to recall it also had /usr/bin/flog. You pass it a process ID as argument, and it was supposed to make the process work harder. (I can't remember the exact wording on the web page. In fact, I could be confused about it being in PWB.)