program name joff

[Henry Spencer]

> Actually, the   terminal known as   BLIT   (now) was named jerq by its
> inventors as a rip-off of perq, which is a reasonably nice & expensive
> Mac-oid machine.

Cough, choke, splutter.  You obviously never tried to write a C compiler
for the Perq.  Furthermore, you obviously have not used the Perq software
much.  The machine is brain-damaged (except for its RasterOp box, which
is good and really fast); the software is worse.  Furthermore, the cpu is
significantly slower than a Sun at a substantially higher price.  "Jerq"
was not a ripoff of "Perq", it was a snide comment on the Perq, originally
made by people who had worked with Perqs a lot and knew them all too well.
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry