On 13 April 2017 at 21:35, Adam Sampson <ats(a)offog.org> wrote: I vaguely remember hearing of ecce, I think; however many British universities in the 1980s that I knew (largely from the student-hacker community) ran the children of an editor called GEORGE descended from an old ICL operating system: - http://www.icl1900.co.uk/g3/editor.html (user doc) - http://sw.ccs.bcs.org/CCs/g3/LeedsDoc/sect-e.htm (manual) - http://sw.ccs.bcs.org/CCs/g3/ (source) The variant at UCL was called "gedit" and hosted on OS/4000 ( https://dropsafe.crypticide.com/article/3197) The variant at Aberystwyth was called "ge" and hosted on GECOS-3 and various Unixen There were many others; having infected (?) the UK community in the 1970s (?) it became a favourite. -a ps: as a friend likes to point out, OS/4000, as a B2-secure (ha) military-grade operating system, had some fabulous syntax. The equivalent to Unix's "rm -rf ~" would be: "FCOPY USER SINK TRACE DESTROY" ...which basically implemented a recursive "mv" to /dev/null, directories included. -- http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/aboutalecm

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