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Subject: etymology of peek and poke
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Date: Wed, 20-Jul-83 10:51:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 20 10:51:00 1983
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From:  David Smith 


Peek 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.