Subj : Re: 3270 BBS
To   : Dumas Walker
From : tenser
Date : Sat Aug 30 2025 01:40 am

On 22 Aug 2025 at 10:49a, Dumas Walker pondered and said...
 
 DW> >  DW> > Ah...TSO.  I can't remember if it was TSO or TSS that was the
 DW> >  DW> > inspiration for the old quip about kicking a dead whale down the
 DW> >  DW> > beach.
 DW> 
 DW> >  DW> Since I have never heard that old quip, I am guessing it must have 
 DW> >  DW> about TSS.  ;)
 DW> 
 DW> > Ah, apparently it _was_ about TSO.  Paul McLellan wrote about it
 DW> > over on the cadence blog:
 DW> 
 DW> Interesting.  I never found it to be nearly that tedious.

At some point, someone had written a fake shell for Unix that
mimmicked TSS or TSO, as a joke.  It was unpleasant.

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