HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
Subject: Re: What one-liner, joke, saying would you like to see on a T-shirt
Organization: NAS, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 00:16:11 GMT
Distribution: usa

I did a series of Tee-shirts based on what I regarded as neat signature lines.
The back is an Courier font Rock of Ages etc.
The front has a small rocking chair and underneath the custom shirts had:
	Aging Hippie Astronomer
	ucbvax!fair	(I wanted a slew of UUCP paths for the old days)
	From the tty of ...
and so forth.  A couple dozen just read "Another Gross Generalization"
which I later realized was a mistake, I had intended "Resident Cynic"
so I ran a series of those recently and gave them to demonstrated cynics
[like the Japanese management/business school where you have to go down
to the corner and sign the praises of your company].  Teal blue.
One exception: I had a red made for me.  Recently I lost Mike O'Dell's
so he has the only other red one as a "Resident Crank."  I have to give Chuq
his.

I was inspired to do this after my term as BA ACM/SIGGRAPH president
where upon my CORE group gave me a nice shirt and also equiped themselves
with CORE group shirts.  My shirt reads: "I survived."  They were a good crew.

--eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov
  Associate Editor, Software and Publication Reviews
  Scientific Programming
  {uunet,mailrus,other gateways}!ames!eugene
Seeking Books to buy:	Bongard, Pattern Recognition
			3 down 1 to go.
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From: khchung@monu1.cc.monash.edu.au (Mr KH Chung)
Subject: Re: i is for iteration
Summary: i as in subscripts
Organization: Monash University, Australia.
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 13:15:29 GMT

In article <C164Hr.JCs@ulowell.ulowell.edu>, wex@cs.ulowell.edu (Paul M. Wexelblat) writes:
> 
> As most correspondents have pointed out I was the first of the
> initial letters of identifies that defaulted to Integer data type
> in FORTRAN.  I have not noticed the mention of the fact that it is
> I through N  (I,J,K,L,M,N) that had that "feature".
> The range was remembered by the coincidence? that I and N (first and
> last) were the first two letters of INteger.
> 
> I have some old Fortran documents that do not use the word
> "Iterate" in reference to DO loops, so I'll add the fuel to the
> discussion that I don't think "I" was chosen for any reason having to do
> with iteration 
> 
> [I'm old enough, but I wasn't there]
> OTOH, The paper "The History of FORTRAN I, II, and III"
> by John Backus from the proceedings of the first History of
> Programming Languages conference (1978), gives some examples
> [The second is thia April in Cambridge MA BTW]
> of formulae of those days in which i and j were used as subscripts.
> 
> So, I as an iteration variable may predate it all.
> -- 
> 
> 	...Wex

Use of i as an index variable in mathematics predates use in computers
(look up some old maths papers).  Fortran was designed for scientific
computing, so one would expect that mathematicians probably had a hand
in designing the language ...
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From: dpbsmith@world.std.com (Daniel P. B. Smith)
Subject: Re: HISTORY OF WORD PROCESSING
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:09:51 GMT

   davei@wam.umd.edu (The One True Dave) writes:
>  I may be wrong (correct me if I am) but I do believe that word processing
>as we know it started with Wang Labs in the late 60's/early 70's. 

Probably not.  First, of all, I believe the term Word Processing was
actually invented by IBM.  They certainly publicized it heavily in a series
of ads around 1974 or 1975.  It included typewriters, I believe not just
mag-card selectrics but plain old correcting Selectrics.

In "Lessons," Dr. Wang writes that in 1974, "there were one or two
CRT-based word processor available.  They were made by such companies as
AES and Vydec.  Koplow and his team took a look at these machines but
did not see anything worthy of emulation."

Lars Poulsen's comments about Wang equipment are accurate.  I'm not sure
it's fair to call the 928 interface "Appletalk-like," though.  I do want
to stress the magnitude of the achievement the WPS and OIS represented.
It was basically client-server network computing, with a microcomputer
in every terminal.  Another remarkable feature of the OIS was the WISE
networking system, basically a distributed file server.  What's remarkable
was the incredible ease with which it could be installed, set up, and
maintained.  

The WPS/OIS/Alliance line was more or less deliberately scuttled by
Wang Labs in the mid eighties, because they felt that profit margins were
higher on the VS, and the salespeople wanted to sell "real" computers
to corporate MIS types rather than "just word processors" to departments.

The combination of a VS emulating the OIS "master" (server) with 
intelligent terminals meant that the VS was the ONLY minicomputer system
that could really support full-screen, interactive, high performance
word processing.  The difference between a VAX trying to do all the work
itself and stuff characters through a 9600 bps bottleneck, and a VS
running WP, was really dramatic.  But, unfortunately, because they'd
abandoned the base technology and weren't evolving it technically, 
what started out perhaps five years ahead of its time became more
and more of an albatross around the company's neck.  

For example, word processing was based on the Z80 processor, and this
was never changed or upgraded.  By the end, if you attached a PC to
a VS to serve as a terminal, it had to include an add-in card with a
Z80 chip on it. 

-- 
Daniel P. B. Smith
dpbsmith@world.std.com
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From: phr@telebit.com (Paul Rubin)
Subject: Re: What is an IBM 5120?
Organization: Telebit Corporation; Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 08:25:24 GMT

I think a 5120 was a desktop APL box.  It had a microcoded emulation
of a 360/65 inside!
Organization: University of Central Florida--Computer Services
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:58:38 EST
From: Jim Ennis <JIM@UCF1VM.BITNET>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: hacker language articles

Hello,

 I am trying to assist a friend in writing a paper about the history of
computer hacker/user language.  I have a copy of the Jargon file and
a couple of the book references from the end of the file.  I am looking
for any suggested magazine articles which the net might know of which
describes instances of hacker language or how the language came about.

Jim Ennis
University of Central Florida
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From: pmueller@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (The Highlander)
Subject: Re: What one-liner, joke, saying would you like to see on a T-shirt
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:03:13 GMT

lukka@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tuomas J Lukka) writes:

>>Error reading device MIND:
>>Sector not found.
>>A)bort R)etry I)gnore F)ail
>>
>>I'm trying to think up a UN*X version of this.....

>Write failed on /dev/brain0: filesystem full

Thanks, i was trying to think of something like that, also i though of this
old joke:

Write failed on /dev/null: filesystem full

-pete
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From: dnichols@d-and-d.com (DoN. Nichols)
Subject: Re: Memetic Virii (was: Vestiges of Fortran, Memes, syntax)
Organization: D and D Data, Vienna VA
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 04:06:51 GMT

In article <1993Jan26.234430.8103@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com> baylor@NEBULA.SSD.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM writes:
>In article <1993Jan26.185009.3912@coe.montana.edu>, uesu03@giac1.oscs.montana.edu (Lou Glassy) writes:
>>Here's a memetic virus I've noted...
>>
>>shrt vrbl nms wth few vwls in thm.
>>[examples deleted for space/courtesy]
>>where did the short variable name meme come from?  FORTRAN, with
>>6-letter identifiers?  early BASIC, with 1-letter+maybe-1-digit
>>identifiers?  C and Unix, because no one wanted to wait for a model 33

	Well, the earlier C compilers had a limit that was either built in,
or a limit in the underlying assembler that everything got passed to.  The
v7 system that I still have (but don't waste power on any more :-) would
require variable names to become unique within eight-character, and within
seven for those which had to be visible from another module, because they
had a '_' prepended to the variable name to form the label in assembler.
Since the assembler limited you to eight characters, the code fed to the
compiler had to comply also.  (If it didn't, you didn't get errors at
compile time, just either link time, or worse, runtime. :-)

>Sure it didn't come from "spdwrtng", a mid-70's substitute 
>for shorthand with a much shorter learing curve?
>Or it could come about from many programmers being abyssimal typists
>and wanting just enough letters to remember what the variables were
>for.

	That may be the case for some.  I find that I will use a
medium-length variable name until the code is working, and then do a global
change to make it even more self-documenting (if I remember to. :-)


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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: dpbsmith@world.std.com (Daniel P. B. Smith)
Subject: More about TJ-2, the first word processor (maybe)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 04:33:11 GMT

Well, I located my copy of the memo describing TJ-2.  It's
dated May 9, 1963.  I think it might be of some historic
interest, so a subsequent posting transcribes the memo
in full.  (It's about two-and-a-half pages long).  Read it.
Decide for yourself: was it a word processor?  

Presumably there was a TJ-1, so my suggestion that TJ-2
was the FIRST word processor is very unlikely.  But it
certainly antedates TROFF and RUNOFF.

-- 
Daniel P. B. Smith
dpbsmith@world.std.com
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From: mdw@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh)
Subject: Re: What one-liner, joke, saying would you like to see on a T-shirt
Organization: Jim's Burger Hut and Ferengi Tavern, Deep Space Nine
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 02:58:31 GMT

In article <wcsjc.727708010@cunews> wcsjc@alfred.carleton.ca (John Coughlin) writes:
>In <C18G3u.9wn@bcstec.ca.boeing.com> saddler@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Ray, just Ray) writes:
>
>>- $rm -r /
>
>Or, slightly better:
>   #rm -rf /

Or, even better:

    # find . -name "*" -exec rm {} \; -print | mail root -s "oops!"

mdw

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  "Donuts. Is there anything they can't do?" 
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From: davei@wam.umd.edu (The One True Dave)
Subject: Re: HISTORY OF WORD PROCESSIN
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:05:18 GMT

In article <C17546.989@world.std.com> paladin@world.std.com (Thomas G Schlatter) writes:
>In article <1993Jan15.173341.3969@wam.umd.edu> davei@wam.umd.edu (The One True Dave) writes:
>>
>>Wang WP on a 2200, you can use it on one of the big virtual systems
>>(VS100?) or a PC. The look and feel, the menus and keystrokes, are all
>>the same.)
>
>I believe their latest is the VS7000.
>
>Anyone have any comments about Wang?
>
>From what I'm told, they're great machines, produced by a
>company that still thinks that people will go with the
>proprietary lock-in at all levels.
>
>Two of a friend's favorite acronyms for WANG (he works in a Wang shop):
>We Are No Good
>Wait And Never Get it
>


Actually, proprietary lock-in is an IBM problem. There are some Wang
machines that run a superset of similar IBM machines (all the instructions
plus a few.) In fact, there were cases where code written on a Wang mini
would run on two different IBM machines, whereas code written on one
of the IBM machines wouldn't run on the other.

I don't know how, so don't ask. But it's true.

The VS-10000 is supposed to be coming out/is out. (Of course, as your
friend says, you'll probably wait and never get it.)

Wang builds a good machine, though. I have a Wang PC at home (382, that's
a 20mhz 386DX.) A bit old, but very reliable.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris)
Subject: Re: Vestiges of FORTRAN, Memes and Syntax (Was: Re: i is for iteration)
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:03:18 GMT

alecm@coyote.uk.sun.com (Alec Muffett - Sun IS -  System Administrator) writes:

>In article ABA@brunel.ac.uk,  cs92njc@ccws-39.brunel.ac.uk.ac.uk (Nicholas J Clayton) writes:

>>Does anyone know the circumstances that surround "i" being adopted as
>>the most common name for a variable in a loop, "for(i = 0; i < 10;
>>i++)" and so on. Is it simply becuase it is the first letter of
>>"iterate" or do the reasons run deeper than that?

>I believe (definitely the case in my instance) that it's from FORTRAN.

Um...fellows, please don't lose sight of the fact that mathematical
notation existed long before the electronic computer arrived on the
scene.  I haven't any idea just where the use of {i, j, k,...} began
but it far predates the computer age, and was almost certainly the reason
for the decision of the original FORTRAN committee to carve out a
block of letters in the middle of the alphabet and declare them to
be the default integer initial characters.  

See if your local library has a copy of an early edition of CRC Tables
and look at the mathematical section for examples of the use of
these letters as indices.

Joe Morris / MITRE
Xref: sparky alt.folklore.computers:19399 comp.lang.misc:4164
From: lukka@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tuomas J Lukka)
Subject: Re: What one-liner, joke, saying would you like to see on a T-shirt
Organization: University of Helsinki
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 00:18:32 GMT

>Error reading device MIND:
>Sector not found.
>A)bort R)etry I)gnore F)ail
>
>I'm trying to think up a UN*X version of this.....

Write failed on /dev/brain0: filesystem full
Write failed on /dev/brain0: filesystem full
Write failed on /dev/brain0: filesystem full
Write failed on /dev/brain0: filesystem full
Write failed on /dev/brain0: filesystem full
Write failed on /dev/brain0: filesystem full
Write failed on /dev/brain0: filesystem full
Write failed on /dev/brain0: filesystem full
Write failed on /dev/brain0: filesystem full
Write failed on /dev/brain0: filesystem full
Write failed on /dev/brain0: filesystem full
Write failed on /dev/brain0: filesystem full
Write failed on /dev/brain0: filesystem full
Write failed on /dev/brain0: filesystem full
Write failed on /dev/brain0: filesystem full
Write failed on /dev/brain0: filesystem full
Write failed on /dev/brain0: filesystem full
Write failed on /dev/brain0: filesystem full

etc.

	TJL
From: ig25@fg30.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas Koenig)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: What one-liner, joke, saying would you like to see on a T-shirt
Date: 26 Jan 93 15:42:49 GMT
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: fg30.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de

Hmm... what about

rw-rw-rw-: The file protection of the beast
C sick and sh shocked
I survived the rec.arts.sf-lovers reorg
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Institut fuer Mechanische Verfahrenstechnik und Mechanik,
Bereich Angewandte Mechanik, Tel: 3758
From: andor@inode.com
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: BEST 486DX SETUP.
Date: 27 Jan 93 14:31:07 EST
Reply-To: andor@inode.com
Distribution: world
Organization: inode BBS, NYC's Best Usenet Access (212-679-9146)

 -=> Quoting Edm@wrs.com to News <=-

 Ed> Feature:      Wowbagger TIP's:           Gateway 2000 4DX2-66V

Be careful about Gateway Micronics motherboards. 

Apparently, some of them have an OverDrive socket, but have timing problems
that prevent the socket from actually working.
--- Blue Wave/QWK v2.10
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From: dnichols@d-and-d.com (DoN. Nichols)
Subject: Re: all folklore
Organization: D and D Data, Vienna VA
Distribution: world,local
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 03:50:46 GMT

In article <26JAN199308594560@milori.ccit.arizona.edu> stoddard@milori.ccit.arizona.edu (MJ STODDARD) writes:
>In article <XcoXXB6w165w@mertwig.uucp>, daniel%mertwig@uunet.uu.net  (Daniel Drucker) writes...
>> 
>>I'm writing an essay on 'computer folklore', and I know that I'm
>> <deleted>

	[ ... ]

>Is 1970 really 10BH? -- Jargon file does not give a date for origin
>of term.

	Well, in 1960, at MIT, there were already hacks, and therefore
hackers.  The term had not yet gravitated to computer use, but it was in use
with relay logic, pranks, etc.


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From: ad@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Andrew Davison)
Subject: Humorous Submissions
Originator: ad@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU
Organization: Department of Computer Sci, University of Melbourne
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 05:39:56 GMT


Dear All,

As some of you may know, I'm putting together a collection of
humorous articles related to computing. I hope to publish them
under the exciting title: `Humour The Computer'. 

A common sort of email I've been receiving is:
`Have you heard about the wonderful humorous article called ...
I haven't got it, but you should try to find a copy'.

Well, this is a folklore group, subscribed to by people who
keep rusting 50's computers in their garages. Maybe a few
of you have some of these `old time favourites'? If so, could you 
please post them to me (by email is fine). 

By the way, could you try to supply the original author's
name and address, so that I can obtain their permission to
publish.

Thanks,

  Andrew


Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: bmarcum@world.std.com (Bill Marcum)
Subject: Re: Atari 1450 XLD
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 06:23:35 GMT

In article <1993Jan27.040403.5554@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Simon E. Booth) writes:
>
>A bit off-track, but I remember seeing what looked like a small (notebook-
>sized?) computer in the film 'Terminator 2', that had the Atari logo.
>
>So, is Atari in the notebook computer business? Or was this merely a prop?
>
That was an Atari Portfolio, a sort-of MS-DOS compatible notebook with (I
think) 128k ram, 80c88 cpu, and built-in spreadsheet and word-processor
software.  I've seen them advertised for about $250.

Bill Marcum  bmarcum@world.std.com
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: elf@ee.ryerson.ca (luis fernandes)
Subject: Re: What one-liner, joke, saying would you like to see on a T-shirt
Organization: Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, Toronto
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 20:11:17 GMT

paulf@abercrombie.Stanford.EDU (Paul Flaherty) writes:

>gugler-sean@cs.yale.edu (Sean Gugler) writes:

>>It can be shown that for any nutty theory, beyond-the-fringe political view or
>>strange religion there exists a proponent on the Net. The proof is left as an
>>exercise for your kill-file.
>
>Without KILL files, life itself would be impossible.

I wonder if Salman Rushdie would agree.

--
elf@ee.ryerson.ca
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: dlphknob@cs1.bradley.edu (Jemaleddin Cole)
Subject: Re: Pentia
Organization: Panty of the Month Club
Date: 23 Jan 93 16:50:12 GMT

In <alien.02ns@acheron.amigans.gen.nz> alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz (Ross Smith) writes:

>If a "586" is a Pentium (pl. Pentia?), then are 386s trivia?

Yes and you can bet that the 686 will be Sexia than all the rest!
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From: Juhana.Rasanen@hut.fi (Juhana R{s{nen)
Subject: Re: VIC-20 returns!
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: 25 Jan 93 16:15:30 GMT

In article <1993Jan24.220258.14011@bsu-ucs> 01ksdavis@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu writes:

>In article <1993Jan21.122919.21205W@viper.edb.tih.no>, terjej@edb.tih.no (Terje Johansen,o90b) writes:
>> As a joke and as a remembrance of my first computer-days,
>> I bought a VIC-20 with a cassette-player yesterday.
>> Any ideas what I can use it for, except for doorstop and to scare 
>> the shit out of future grandchildren?

>	Well, my first computer was a VIC-20 and it was what I learned to
>program in BASIC on.  Anyhow, it was remarkable the things I could do with the
>sound effects and the keyboard graphics capabilities.  

Yeah, mine was a VIC, too... those were the days :-). But now I have not
only my old VIC but also an Amiga (no flames, pleasepleaseplease, at least
not in this group; comp.sys.amiga.advocacy is for them) for which I have
made a VIC-20 -emulator! Not quite working yet, though, I haven't really
put my mind on it. But it runs the 6502 code quite prettily, uses VIC's
original character generator etc.

And now children, don't try this at home: The first version was made in
_compiled_basic_!! It executed about 30 6502 instructions /sec, booting
took half an hour. Not actually a thing a sensible programmer would do,
but it was fun. And unique, I bet. Now it's in assembler, with a tremendous
speedup, but still the 8 MHz 68000 doesn't come even close to the 1 MHz
6502. *sigh*

And if there's anybody thinking about asking if they could also have the
emulator, don't ask. Two reasons I can't spread it now (in the future maybe):

1. The thing isn't working yet. You couldn't do anything with it.

2. It needs the images of the VIC ROM, which are copyright of Commodore
   Inc. I could only put it out without these images, and it wouldn't
   be much fun. (Does anybody know if Commodore would be willing to
   give a license for the VIC ROMs for a nominal fee, say $1? :-)


Have fun...


	Juhana
--
	"Never argue with a six-year-old who shaves."

		-- Calvin
From: lstowell@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: What one-liner, joke, saying would you like to see on a T-shirt
Date: 20 Jan 93 20:41:27 GMT
Reply-To: lstowell@pyrnova.pyramid.com.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corporation

In article <73925@cup.portal.com> sunday@cup.portal.com (Sunday and Associates) writes:
>
>	We are preparing a commercial release of T-shirts intended for
>the Usenet civilization and related societies. We would like to solicit
>your thoughts about what *saying*, slogan, one-liner, joke (including
>visual) you would like to see on a t-shirt. 
>	Remember there is a front and a back to any shirt.
>	If something you suggest is used we'd make a contribution to a
>charity of your choice.
>	This is not a solicitation to buy anything, we're just looking
>for suggestions.
>	Thanks.
>
   Where do you intend to sell these things?  Fry's, Computer
   Literacy, magazines?

   And do you realize how many terabytes of 'net storage you have 
   just condemned?

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: mrjg8679@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael R James)
Subject: YKYB reading Usenet too long...
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 22:49:46 GMT

On vacation, I was reading a piece of paper from the management
of our condo

WELCOME TO THE COCONUTS RESORT...

My first thought: "Why are they shouting?"

--
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                 "Wouldn't it be great if insecurity and desperation
                  made us more attractive?" -- Albert Brooks, Broadcast News