Hello?
James 'Kibo' Parry
>In article <1991Dec28....@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> user...@mts.ucs.ualberta.ca (Mark Israel) writes:
>>Why is this newsgroup still in existence although the correctly spelled
>>alt.sex.masturbation was rmgrouped?
>>
>>user...@mts.ucs.ualberta.ca Mark Israel
^^^
MTS as in Michigan Terminal System? That's the OPPOSITE of
masturbation!
-- K.
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James "Kibo" Parry 271 Dartmouth St #3D, Boston MA 02116 (617)262-3922
ki...@world.std.com Independent graphic designer and typeface designer.
Mark Israel
> MTS as in Michigan Terminal System?
Yes.
> That's the OPPOSITE of masturbation!
Once upon a time, big shots like William Joy used MTS. (That's how
Unix got the "source" command in csh, the ":" prompt in the ex editor,
the "undo" command in the ex editor...)
I *love* the MTS pattern-matching editor. But MTS use is becoming
increasingly a solitary pleasure.
There's a local online conference called "FUTURE-OF-MTS", where we
discuss how quickly we're going to junk MTS. There's not much activity
in the conference, so I guess it's not a subject of massdebate.
> James "Kibo" Parry
> ki...@world.std.com
"world.std.com" as in "commercial standardization of the world"?
All clothes to be made of denim? Every meal to be like one at McDonalds?
What can I do to prevent it?
user...@mts.ucs.ualberta.ca Mark Israel
"Oh, don't think I did a skimpy job. I looked it all up in the *big*
encyclopaedia!" -- C. M. Kornbluth
James 'Kibo' Parry
>In article <BH7L...@world.std.com>, ki...@world.std.com (James 'Kibo' Parry) writes:
>
>> MTS as in Michigan Terminal System?
>
> Yes.
Oh my god. Xibo's Favorite Operating System.
>> That's the OPPOSITE of masturbation!
>
> Once upon a time, big shots like William Joy used MTS. (That's how
>Unix got the "source" command in csh, the ":" prompt in the ex editor,
>the "undo" command in the ex editor...)
But UNIX will never compete with MTS until it has "$DISPLAY
TIMESPELLEDOUT", *PIZZADELIVERY, and the famous sausage transfer
protocol ("$FTP LINK=SAUSAGE"--gee, doesn't that look like it was
implemented by a Kibologist?)
> I *love* the MTS pattern-matching editor. But MTS use is becoming
^^^^^^
THEN WHY DONT U MARRIOTT ????///// HA HA HA HA HA HA HA !!!!!1111
-- PEE WEE BIFF
>increasingly a solitary pleasure.
>
> There's a local online conference called "FUTURE-OF-MTS", where we
>discuss how quickly we're going to junk MTS. There's not much activity
>in the conference, so I guess it's not a subject of massdebate.
At RPI they're putting the ITT Courier terminals back in next year, I
hear. Everyone misses EBCDIC. They're even scheduling an "Anti-T-Day"
where all files will be translated back to EBCDIC.
> "world.std.com" as in "commercial standardization of the world"?
>All clothes to be made of denim? Every meal to be like one at McDonalds?
>What can I do to prevent it?
No, .std. as in Sexually Transmitted Disease clinic. We sell them.
A bottle of herpes, only $29.98!
World.std.com is not an MTS site, BTW. It's TOPS-10.