From news.daimi.aau.dk!news.uni-c.dk!sunic!trane.uninett.no!eunet.no!nuug!EU.net!uunet!boole!jka Wed Sep 14 16:22:19 1994 Newsgroups: alt.usage.english,alt.folklore.computers,comp.sys.unisys Path: news.daimi.aau.dk!news.uni-c.dk!sunic!trane.uninett.no!eunet.no!nuug!EU.net!uunet!boole!jka From: jka@boole.com (John Ahlstrom) Subject: Re: Deep Six Message-ID: <1994Sep13.162710.14304@boole.com> Organization: Boole & Babbage, Inc. References: <31ulss$sh8@crl.crl.com> <5SEP199416124609@erich.triumf.ca> <34pbh6$dc0@hermes.coventry.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 16:27:10 GMT Lines: 37 Xref: news.daimi.aau.dk alt.usage.english:37601 alt.folklore.computers:71028 comp.sys.unisys:1736 In dgregory@netcom.com (Donald J. Gregory) writes: Much deleted >This code was all written around 1968, during the Viet Nam protests, >and some of that spirit still survives. There are also references >to TV shows of the time. Why else is the procedure for waiting >on a time period called TIMETUNNEL? >There is a lot of folklore in the history of the A-Series. Somebody >should write a history book some day. >Don Gregory I was a 5500/6700/7700 customer and 1700MCP writer in the late 60s and early 70s. For television tie-ins there were procedures in the 5500 TimeSharing MCP named FatAlbert and OldWierdHarold The comment at the head of OldWierdHarold stated that it did "many strange and wonderous things, some of which are useful". There was also a procedure dedicated to a sgt of the CA National Guard who threw down his rifle and joined the protesters at a Berkeley anti-war rally. I'm sorry I do not remember his name. Then there was the comment in the 1700 virtual memory manager Yesterday I had a scare. I used some code that wasn't there. It wasn't there again today. Oh, how I wish that it would stay. -- John Ahlstrom I can neither confirm nor deny Boole & Babbage that these opinions are or are not San Jose CA 95134 held by anyone else. INTERNET: jka@boole.com phone 408-526-3307 fax 408526-3055