Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site batman.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!utastro!cositex!cyb-eng!batman!gene From: gene@batman.UUCP (Gene Mutschler) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: Humor ala Kernighan Message-ID: <119@batman.UUCP> Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 18:13:18 EDT Article-I.D.: batman.119 Posted: Wed Jul 10 18:13:18 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Jul-85 03:58:38 EDT References: <714@vax2.fluke.UUCP> <243@ttrdc.UUCP> <4573@mit-eddie.UUCP> <894@loral.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Burroughs Austin Research Center, TX Lines: 30 > >This reminds me of a Fortran compiler I used to use years ago on a > >XEROX 560 computer: If you did the following > > > > ASSIGN xx JAIL > > GO TO JAIL > > > >In the compiler listing would be the following, right after the statement: > > GO DIRECTLY. DO NOT PASS GO. DO NOT COLLECT 200 DOLLARS. > > On the H.P. 2100 computer I once used, entering the command "WHY" > to the operating system provoked the response: > > WHY NOT? On the Burroughs B5500, the console command EI met with the response EIO obviously enough. We had a B5500 at school (Rice). I went to work for Burroughs at the Large Systems Plant, which by then made the B6700. My first day on the job, I walked up to the B6700 console and typed "EI" and got the (rather surprising, to say the least) response EMERGENCY INTERRUPT SET Not quite as bad as it sounds--it stops further selection of jobs--but I had a fun time explaining how it came to be set.