2 Aug
2010
2 Aug
'10
12:58 p.m.
Tony Duell [ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk] wrote:
I am absolutley sure it was deliberate, it is far too much of a
conincidence. The apocryphal part is whether the suits realised what was
going on before it was too late, and wheter it was a hacker's reaction to
the SXT/SEX PDP11 instruction/
And the possibly aporcryphal extension that the
hackers
got their
own back in the naming of the Failed UniBus Address Register in the
VAX11/780 -- only after manuals had been printed and shipped did the
suits realise what FUBAR stood for :-)
I have no personal knowledge, but I find it incredibly difficult to
believe that FUBAR was anything other than deliberate :-)
Was it OS/8 (or a derivative) that started out as the
First User Customizable Keyboard monitor? The reply to the
obvious objection was Second User ... (I don't recall what
it actually shipped as).
Hmm... :-)
I assume that P/OS was just an accident (and coined after the fact).
Well, there was already POS (PERQ OS or Pascal OS) which not suprisingly
ran on PERQs and was a farily nice single-user OS for said machine. I
have never heard of anyone calling that piece-of-s***. But that is an
apporpirate name for the ruined RSX that runs on the Pro...
-tony