Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!ucbcad!ucbvax!TOPAZ:vmicro1 From: TOPAZ:vmicro1@ucbvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: etymology of peek and poke Message-ID: <232@ucbtopaz.UUCP> Date: Fri, 29-Jul-83 00:53:28 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbtopaz.232 Posted: Fri Jul 29 00:53:28 1983 Date-Received: Sun, 24-Jul-83 01:46:49 EDT References: avsdS.526 Lines: 3 I was just glancing at an ancient (real seventies) PDP-10 assembly language manual; I notice it has peek and poke UUO's. So, possible an MIT connection? Project MAC, maybe, where all the inside DEC jokes are from?