forys@boulder.UUCP (05/20/87)
In article <1135@byzantium.swatsun.UUCP> schwartz@swatsun (Scott Schwartz) writes: > Speaking of fun command interpreters, Primos supports a command > language that penalizes you for hitting <break> too many times Wait! It wasnt a penalty -- it was a feature!! Besides, arent you warned of the impending doom with something like: AT STACK LEVEL 40, USE `RLS' TO RELEASE As I recall (four years ago?), the feature was that each <break> caused assorted contextual information regarding the terminated process to be pushed on a stack (for debugging purposes). Well *eventually*, the stack overflows (what stack wouldnt? :-), the abbreviations (i.e. aliases) are tossed, and the stack cleared. There's certainly more to this, but ... OK, PR1MOS is to UNIX, as Railroads are to Planes (nostalgic :-). --- Jeff Forys @ UC/Boulder Engineering Research Comp Cntr (303-492-6096) forys@Boulder.Colorado.EDU -or- ..!{hao|nbires}!boulder!forys