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Old July 23rd 08, 02:11 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Jon
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Default OT: xyzzy

On Jul 22, 4:40*pm, Jim Logajan wrote:
Jon wrote:
On Jul 22, 3:39*pm, Jim Logajan wrote:
"Jon Woellhaf" wrote:
Just curious ... How many of you know the origin of xyzzy, without
cheating and looking it up?


Does that question interest you?


Nothing happens.


Does it please you to know nothing happens?


I'm in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.


Please go on.


Let's just say that I do recall eventually seeing the Fortran code
for it


Why do you recall eventually seeing the Fortran code for it?


(a port to MNF for a CDC 6400), a few years after I'd played it on a
110 baud Teletype(R). That was about thirty years ago.


Can you elaborate on that?


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Who remembers that, w/o looking it up? *


Again, I do - and I didn't need a therapist to help me remember.


Then it's a good thing I'm not a therapist