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=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 e0c6c64f for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2020 22:21:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 893DB9CC1A; Thu, 6 Feb 2020 08:21:28 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE7149CC09; Thu, 6 Feb 2020 08:21:03 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 69BF19CC07; Thu, 6 Feb 2020 08:21:00 +1000 (AEST) Received: from viclamta13p.bpe.bigpond.com (viclamta13p.bpe.bigpond.com [203.38.21.77]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 185569CB86 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2020 08:20:58 +1000 (AEST) Received: from smtp.telstra.com ([10.10.26.4]) by viclafep13p-svc.bpe.nexus.telstra.com.au with ESMTP id <20200205222057.RMEY6139.viclafep13p-svc.bpe.nexus.telstra.com.au@smtp.telstra.com> for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2020 09:20:57 +1100 X-RG-Spam: Unknown X-RazorGate-Vade: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrgedugedrhedugdduheehucetufdoteggodetrfdotffvucfrrhhofhhilhgvmecuuffpveftpgfvgffnuffvtfetpdfqfgfvnecuuegrihhlohhuthemucegtddtnecunecujfgurhepfffhvffujgfkfhgfgggtsehttddttddtredvnecuhfhrohhmpeffrghvvgcujfhorhhsfhgrlhhluceouggrvhgvsehhohhrshhfrghllhdrohhrgheqnecukfhppeduuddtrddugedurdduleefrddvfeefnecuvehluhhsthgvrhfuihiivgeptdenucfrrghrrghmpehhvghloheprghnvghurhhinhdrhhhorhhsfhgrlhhlrdhorhhgpdhinhgvthepuddutddrudeguddrudelfedrvdeffedpmhgrihhlfhhrohhmpeeouggrvhgvsehhohhrshhfrghllhdrohhrgheqpdhrtghpthhtohepoehtuhhhshesthhuhhhsrdhorhhgqe X-RazorGate-Vade-Verdict: clean 0 X-RazorGate-Vade-Classification: clean X-RG-VS-CLASS: clean Received: from aneurin.horsfall.org (110.141.193.233) by smtp.telstra.com (5.8.418) id 5E00C71E074A0979 for tuhs@tuhs.org; Thu, 6 Feb 2020 09:20:56 +1100 Received: from aneurin.horsfall.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aneurin.horsfall.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id 015MKuDR062359 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2020 09:20:56 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) Received: from localhost (dave@localhost) by aneurin.horsfall.org (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) with ESMTP id 015MKtal062356 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2020 09:20:56 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) X-Authentication-Warning: aneurin.horsfall.org: dave owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2020 09:20:54 +1100 (EST) From: Dave Horsfall To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society In-Reply-To: <73524e91-0b05-e4b7-524b-1c7247d48846@gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <4425E818-B9C3-4BFA-BD69-EA4A35D9772E@optusnet.com.au> <73524e91-0b05-e4b7-524b-1c7247d48846@gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.21.9999 (BSF 287 2018-06-16) X-GPG-Public-Key: http://www.horsfall.org/gpgkey.pub X-GPG-Fingerprint: 05B4 FFBC 0218 B438 66E0 587B EF46 7357 EF5E F58B X-Home-Page: http://www.horsfall.org/ X-Witty-Saying: "chmod 666 the_mode_of_the_beast" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed 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" 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