[Gllug] Google knows all...

[Richard Cohen]

On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Steve Cobrin wrote:

> On Friday 20 September 2002 10:21, Tethys wrote:
> > Hmmm... look at the first and third results:
> >
> > 	http://www.google.com/search?q=%22go+to+hell%22
> >
> > Tet :-)
>
> Which reminds me, when I was studying Computer Science at Hatfield
> Polytechnic, now University of Hertfordshire. The main "time-sharing"
> computer Operating System was DECsystem 10, also known as TOPS-10.
>
> On of the builtin command line commands, was "go", used for basic scripting.
> Those wacky DEC engineers put several easter eggs in the OS, so if you type
> "go to hell" the OS replied "get stuffed!". The other one I can still
> remember, was when creating a file with TECO (direct ancestor of EMACS), you
> typed "make" and then it would take you into the editor, but if you typed
> "make love", you got the message "not war?" before entering the editor.

>From various makefiles with Pine and uwimap:

# A monument to a hack of long ago and far away...
love:
        @echo not war?

>   -- Steve

Cheers
Richard


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