[Info-vax] fortune mod tonight

[Paul Sture]

In article <p6akm8-s65.ln1 at nntp.local.net>,
 Single Stage to Orbit <alex.buell at munted.org.uk> wrote:

> Just now my ancient laptop booted up with a fortune saying:
> 
> Proposed Additions to the PDP-11 instruction set:
> 
> BBW	Branch Both Ways
> BEW	Branch Either Way
> BBBF	Branch on Bit Bucket Full
> BH	Branch and Hang
> BMR	Branch Multiple Registers
> BOB	Branch On Bug

  ^^^ - the inspiration for Microsoft Bob?

> BPO	Branch on Power Off
> BST	Backspace and Stretch Type
> CDS	Consense and Destroy System
> CLBR	Clobber Register
> CLBRI	Clobber Register Immediately
> CM	Circulate Memory
> CMFRM	Come From -- essential for truly structured programming
> CPPR	Crumple Printer Paper and Rip
> CRN	Convert to Roman Numerals

  ^^^ - Not as crazy as you might think. My first PDP featured CIS - 
Commercial Instruction Set, which was a hardware add-on to do arithmetic 
on decimal strings.  The version of DIBOL which came with our RT-11
(CTS-300 system to be precise) didn't support integer variables as we 
know them; numbers were stored as strings (and a space filed string was 
equivalent to zero in this context).

May I also propose

KPCLP - kill Office Paperclip ?

-- 
Paul Sture