Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-h Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:aeq From: aeq@pucc-h (Jeff Sargent) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: "Alfie" Message-ID: <604@pucc-h> Date: Tue, 20-Mar-84 19:18:08 EST Article-I.D.: pucc-h.604 Posted: Tue Mar 20 19:18:08 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 22-Mar-84 00:53:16 EST References: <1392@zehntel.UUCP> Organization: Purdue University Computing Center Lines: 13 This has nothing to do with consumers, but I was amused to see something about a computer calling itself Alfie when there is, on the CDC 6000 terminal system here at Purdue, a language called ALFIE (Algebraic Language For an Interactive Environment). One section of the manual introduction even is headed (music please): "What's it all about, ALFIE?" (For the curious: ALFIE is a munged version of BASIC--i.e. just close enough to be understandable, but just different enough to be incompatible if you try anything too complicated. We sensibly dropped support for it some time back.) -- -- Jeff Sargent {allegra|ihnp4|decvax|harpo|seismo|ucbvax}!pur-ee!pucc-h:aeq Have you hugged your junk mail today?