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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.unix,net.jokes
Subject: Re: program name joff
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Date: Wed, 19-Dec-84 14:43:07 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 19 14:43:07 1984
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> 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was not a ripoff of "Perq", it was a snide comment on the Perq, originally
made by people who had worked with Perqs a lot and knew them all too well.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
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