Okay, I give up. What is the real story?
Dean Karres
dkarres at hubcap.clemson.edu
Thu Nov 15 09:01:52 AEST 1990
sean at ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:
>kirkaas at makaha.cs.ucla.edu (paul kirkaas) writes:
>|What the heck is the history behind "xyzzy" ???? I've seen so many
>|references to it here I feel like I'm missing a vital piece of
>|historic computer lore.
I have just picked up on this thread so forgivness is asked where
necessary :-)
If you ever have the chance to play on a Data General machine running
an operating system named AOS or AOS/VS (*) type "xyzzy" at a command
prompt and you get...
Nothing happens.
(*) - I know about this through first hand experience on DG machines
running pre-rev-7 versions of AOS and AOS/VS. That means that it
existed 10+ years ago and was carried on until, at least, 1987.
dean...k...
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