Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.unix,net.jokes Subject: Re: program name joff Message-ID: <4806@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Wed, 19-Dec-84 14:43:07 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.4806 Posted: Wed Dec 19 14:43:07 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 19-Dec-84 14:43:07 EST References: <37@mot.UUCP> <1865@sun.uucp>, <10448@watmath.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 14 > 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 "Jerq" was not a ripoff of "Perq", it was a snide comment on the Perq, originally made by people who had worked with Perqs a lot and knew them all too well.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