[HECnet] SimH, Ultrix and DECnet

Tony Blews tonyblews at gmail.com
Thu Jun 28 19:51:07 PDT 2012


?REDO FROM START always annoyed me on the PET. It just made no sense given the context.


On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Marc Chametzky <marc at bluevine.net> wrote:
When I was much younger (back in high school), I used a PDP-11/03 running RSTS and MU-BASIC (v1). It used three character error codes.

So, while in BASIC, we typed in:

     WHAT DID YOU DO LAST SUNDAY?

and it responded:

     ?SYN

That was terribly amusing to us teenagers.

--Marc



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