[TUHS] README

[Paul Winalski via TUHS]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM Al Kossow via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:

>
> isn't this a reference to Alice in Wonderland?
>
> I always thought so.  A reference to the bottle Alice finds that is
labeled "Drink Me".

I suspect README has been invented independently several times.  Back in
1974 when I was an undergrad a fellow hacker wrote a S/360 DOS logical
transient (privileged overlay code in the operating system) that, when
called returned control to the caller in supervisor (privileged) mode.  We
used it as the basis for many a hack.  All transient routines were named
starting with $$B.  This one was called $$BTRYME.

-Paul W.