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On Nov 3, 2020, at 7:40 AM, Ron Natalie <ron at ronnatalie.com> wrote:

> This memory just came back to me.     There was a UNIX disribution (PWB/UNIX?) that had a program called 1.
> It printed tis quaint bit of propaganda.
> 
> One Bell System.  It works.
> 
> This was fine until one day I’m at work in a big bull pen computer room when Bernie, one of my co-workers, shouts.
> “What’s all this Bell System crud in the editor?”
> 
> My reaction is, “Well, it’s all Bell System crud.”    I walk over to his terminal and find he is typing 1 repeatedly at the shell prompt and getting the above message.  (This was back in the old /bin/ed days where 1 got you to the top of the file).     I had to point out he wasn’t in the editor.
> 
> Later that day, the program was changed to say:
> 
> You’re not in the editor, Bernie.
> 
> This I think made it into one of the BRL releases and occassionally got inquiries as to who Bernie is.

Yes, PWB/UNIX.

I seem to recall it also had /usr/bin/flog. You pass it a process ID as argument, and it was supposed to make the process work harder. (I can't remember the exact wording on the web page. In fact, I could be confused about it being in PWB.)


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