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Re: Lights on Burroughs machines

From "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com>
Newsgroups alt.folklore.computers
Subject Re: Lights on Burroughs machines
Date 2016-03-11 16:29 -0600
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <nbvgll$183$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References <1990Jan15.173434.5792@virtech.uucp> <729@ncs.dnd.ca> <1990Jan15.211417.17833@cs.rochester.edu> <0056fdea-825e-47cc-af67-a4488e1da575@googlegroups.com> <nbth2k016sq@news4.newsguy.com>

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"Charlie Gibbs" <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote in message 
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>> And presumably that is the origin of XYZZY in Colossal Cave Adventure!
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> I once came across a little executable called XYZZY.
> Whenever you ran it, it said, "Nothing happens."
>

Should it say "Nothing happens here.", or is that what the program 
"Hello-Sailor" says???

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numerist at aquaporin4 dot com

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Re: Lights on Burroughs machines Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-03-10 15:26 -0800
  Re: Lights on Burroughs machines Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-03-11 04:20 +0000
    Re: Lights on Burroughs machines "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2016-03-11 16:29 -0600
    Re: Lights on Burroughs machines tracymnelson@gmail.com - 2016-03-22 09:44 -0700
      Re: Lights on Burroughs machines "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2016-03-23 14:26 -0500
  Re: Lights on Burroughs machines scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2016-03-11 14:07 +0000
  Re: Lights on Burroughs machines "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2016-03-11 16:25 -0600

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