Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!Smith@CMU-CS-C.ARPA From: Smith@CMU-CS-C.ARPA Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: etymology of peek and poke Message-ID: <3268@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Wed, 20-Jul-83 10:51:00 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.3268 Posted: Wed Jul 20 10:51:00 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jul-83 20:40:11 EDT Lines: 6 From: David SmithPeek and Poke are the names of system calls for the Pdp-10's Tops-10 operating system. They allow spying on the monitor's address space, and modifying it (if the program has the rights to). This goes back to the mid '60s.