DEC error messages (was foo?)

Bob Page page at ulowell.UUCP
Sat Dec 27 01:56:48 AEST 1986


>DEC do have a sense of humour with their error messages though -
>anyone else remember the RSX-11M error IE.NFW? The error message
>manual gave it as 'Path lost to partner'.

DEC's OS/8 had three ways to invoke TECO - they were TECO, MAKE and
MUNG.  If that in itself was not funny, if you ever typed:
	MAKE LOVE
You would get the response:
	Not war?
and TECO would then fire up as usual.

Alas - I can find nothing funny about VMS.  DEC goes corporate.

..Bob
-- 
Bob Page,  U of Lowell CS Dept.      ulowell!page,  page at ulowell.CSNET



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