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From: newbery@vuwcomp.UUCP (Michael Newbery)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Appropriate Language in Programming (Was: Re: System Error 33)
Message-ID: <12917@vuwcomp.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 19-Jul-87 18:47:07 EDT
Article-I.D.: vuwcomp.12917
Posted: Sun Jul 19 18:47:07 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 24-Jul-87 03:09:42 EDT
References:  <3519@ecsvax.UUCP> <3785@osu-eddie.UUCP> <3445@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU>
Reply-To: newbery@vuwcomp.UUCP (Michael Newbery)
Organization: Computing Serv. Ctr, Victoria Uni., Wellington, New Zealand
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In article <3445@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> graifer@net1.UUCP (Dan Graifer) writes:
>In article <3785@osu-eddie.UUCP> elwell%tut.cis.ohio-state.edu@osu-eddie.UUCP (Clayton Elwell) writes:
>>In article <3519@ecsvax.UUCP> wmcb@ecsvax.UUCP (William C. Bauldry) writes:
>>>>Stump the Stars: what dis the "DS" in "DSErrCode" originally stand for?
[...]
>Apple isn't the only place where code has to be "cleaned up" for final
>release.  I recall working with the Burroughs large system  MCP (a multi-

I belive that when Burrogues :-) decided to release the MCP source to its
customers some lucky employees got the job of rendering the source code
fit for delicate sensibilities. Somewhere I have a (yellowing) piece of paper
describing the Fork routine in some detail, including the forked queue, where
tasks were marked forked up, etc etc.. This was not the only area that had to
be Bowdlerised either.
Incidentally, Burrogues also used (uses) DS, being the ABORT command to kill
tasks. DS allegedly stood for Deep Six. A comment described the mainly two
letter commands used from the operators console as "monosyllabic gutteral".
I could go on...
-- 
Michael Newbery

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