[HECnet] SimH, Ultrix and DECnet

Marc Chametzky marc at bluevine.net
Thu Jun 28 17:59:24 PDT 2012


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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