jhc@mtune.UUCP (Jonathan Clark) (12/24/86)
In article <584@mcgill-vision.UUCP> mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse) writes: >By the way, wharf rat isn't joking about the DEC meaning. VAXen really >do have a failed UNIbus address register, and the documentation (eg, >the architecture reference manual) really does call it the FUBAR. Absolutely true. DEC do have a sense of humour with their error messages though - anyone else remember the RSX-11M error IE.NFW? The error message manual gave it as 'Path lost to partner'. Also true. -- Jonathan Clark [NAC,attmail]!mtune!jhc My walk has become rather more silly lately.
page@ulowell.UUCP (Bob Page) (12/26/86)
>DEC do have a sense of humour with their error messages though - >anyone else remember the RSX-11M error IE.NFW? The error message >manual gave it as 'Path lost to partner'. DEC's OS/8 had three ways to invoke TECO - they were TECO, MAKE and MUNG. If that in itself was not funny, if you ever typed: MAKE LOVE You would get the response: Not war? and TECO would then fire up as usual. Alas - I can find nothing funny about VMS. DEC goes corporate. ..Bob -- Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept. ulowell!page, page@ulowell.CSNET
tli@castor.usc.edu (Tony Li) (12/30/86)
In article <892@ulowell.UUCP> page@ulowell.UUCP (Bob Page) writes:
DEC's OS/8 had three ways to invoke TECO - they were TECO, MAKE and
MUNG. If that in itself was not funny, if you ever typed:
MAKE LOVE
You would get the response:
Not war?
and TECO would then fire up as usual.
Alas - I can find nothing funny about VMS. DEC goes corporate.
Actually, this still works under VMS.
For more humor in VMS, though, you have to dig a little deeper.
F'rinstance, with V4.0 there are now two new internal structs for some
of the security code called KGB and CIA.
;-)bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) (12/30/86)
Well, on unix if you say 'make love' it says "don't know how to make love. Stop." Serendipitous humor is better than no humor at all I always say (always?) -Barry Shein, Boston University
cetron@utah-cs.UUCP (Edward J Cetron) (12/31/86)
In article <973@mtune.UUCP> jhc@mtune.UUCP (Jonathan Clark) writes: > >Absolutely true. DEC do have a sense of humour with their error >messages though - anyone else remember the RSX-11M error IE.NFW? The >error message manual gave it as 'Path lost to partner'. Also true. but the best part was that the error number also matched the error: ie.nfw -69. path lost to partner and I still regularly get this error when the unix machines on the same ethercable as my rsx/vax decnet go nuts..... -ed cetron
stevem@fai.UUCP (01/29/87)
In article <892@ulowell.UUCP> page@ulowell.UUCP (Bob Page) writes: > > DEC's OS/8 had three ways to invoke TECO - they were TECO, MAKE and > MUNG. If that in itself was not funny, if you ever typed: > MAKE LOVE > You would get the response: > Not war? > and TECO would then fire up as usual. > > Alas - I can find nothing funny about VMS. DEC goes corporate. Under RSX-11M+ (at around 1983) when the machine was too busy and you tried to issue another command to the Master Control Routine, it would respond with "MCR -- later." -- Steven A. Minneman (Fujitsu America Inc, San Jose, Ca) !seismo!amdahl!fai!stevem or !ihnp4!pesnta!fai!stevem The best government is no government at all.
scco@ur-tut.UUCP (02/03/87)
In article <583@fai.UUCP> stevem@fai.UUCP (Steve Minneman) writes: >In article <892@ulowell.UUCP> page@ulowell.UUCP (Bob Page) writes: >> DEC's OS/8 had three ways to invoke TECO - they were TECO, MAKE and >> MUNG. If that in itself was not funny, if you ever typed: >> MAKE LOVE >> You would get the response: >> Not war? >> and TECO would then fire up as usual. > >Under RSX-11M+ (at around 1983) when the machine was too busy and you >tried to issue another command to the Master Control Routine, it would >respond with "MCR -- later." >-- I worked on a MicroPDP 11/73 running RT-11 this summer. RT-11 is a single-user operating system, and had a SHOW command for displaying various terminal settings, etc. When you typed SHOW USERS, the response was You're the only one! The amusing thing was that we were running TSX+ (multi-user RT-11), so there actually *were* more users, but the authors of TSX hadn't changed the code for SHOW. > > Steven A. Minneman (Fujitsu America Inc, San Jose, Ca) > !seismo!amdahl!fai!stevem or !ihnp4!pesnta!fai!stevem Sean Colbath UUCP: ...allegra!rochester!ur-tut!scco BITNET: SCCO@UORVM