UCSD P System (was: Why is it that ...

From: Jim Battle <frustum_at_pacbell.net>
Date: Wed Nov 29 22:38:05 2000

At 06:07 PM 11/29/00 -0800, you wrote:
>...
>And it really didn't make PC-DOS look good. I've put a screen shot
>of the UCSD P-system file manager prompt at:
>http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/~korpela/gif/filer.gif.
>You may remember what those letters stand for, but I don't.
...

For those not wanting to chase the link, it says:

         Filer: G, S, N, L, R, C, T, D, Q [1.1]

Don't you remember? This was the security mechanism.
You had to play a game of hangman and win before you
could run the compiler. The person above obviously doesn't
know the key to hangman is the vowels.













:-)

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Jim Battle == frustum_at_pacbell.net
Received on Wed Nov 29 2000 - 22:38:05 GMT

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