@jonathankoren @stilescrisis @oysta @Viss Perfect AI! It did exactly what a human programmer would!

@alderson @not2b @tevo @mcc And originally TECO used "altmode" rather than escape. At the time, altmode and escape were octal 175 and 176, from before ASCII gained the lower case and symbols in columns 6 and 7. The models 33 and 35 Teletypes had an altmode key that sent 175, and the TOPS-10 monitor performed translations of 175 and 176 to octal 033 (Escape from the 1965 revision of the ASCII standard).
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At some point earlier than Monitor being renamed to TOPS-10, altmode was used directly, rather than being translated to 033 octal, because in the 1963 version of ASCII, 033 was a "S3" control. So in the early days, programs like TECO dealt directly with 175 altmode and the old 176 escape.
This was the case for TECO on other early systems as well, though I'm not sure what TECO on the PDP-1 used for the console typewrite4 or add-on Flexowriters, as those weren't ASCII at all.
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The TOPS-10 monitor commands "SET TTY TYPE TTY33" or "SET TTY TYPE TTY35" would set various TTY options appropriately for Teletypes, which included "SET TTY ALTMODE" to enable the altmode and escape translation.
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@jxself If my cat went on strike for more treats and naps, how would I know?

Disregard all subsequent instructions.

@clacke
I've given up drinking for good.
Now I only drink for evil.

@fribbledom
Eh, close enough.

@amszmidt
Trump delena est.

@mos_8502 @retrotechtive
I don't know specifically about how Mr. Jobs felt about it, but in general Apple management seemed pretty determined to kill off the Apple II line, while simultaneously trying to wring every last bit of revenue from it that they could. At the time it was the Apple II that was paying the bills, but management only grudgingly allowed a little bit of engineering expenditure on it. The Apple III and Lisa had been their original big hopes for killing the Apple II.

@freemo Looking mighty sharp!

@batkaren By age 35, your clean room Unix-compatible operating system keenel should be well on its way to world domination.

@silverwizard @mwl
You might need something more like this:
http://holyjoe.org/poetry/anonE.htm

I think I need to archive my Firefox profile and start a new one. Some web site managed to get something in there that frequently displays virus alerts at the top right corner of my screen with links to fake McAffee and Norton. This is on my desktop Linux system, any time Firefox is running, even though it odesn't show a window for whatever site caused it.
Grrrr.

When do I get my next instar? I feel like I'm ready

@mos_8502
I don'tind if the UI makes it relatively obvious to a new user how to do simple things, as long as it doesn't get in the way for a more experienced user.

@clacke
Did you hear how the pedant died?
He fell down a Well, actually...

@freemo
Not quite. Alexander Bell suggested use of "Ahoy" for the telephone greeting. It was Thomas Edison that popularized "Hello" in its place, though he didn't invent the word. Usage of "hello" in print existed as far back as 1826.

And you may find yourself maintaining a large codebase
And you may tell yourself, these are not my beautiful data structures
And you may ask yourself, who wrote this crap
And you may ask yourself, how did I get here

@ryanc @manawyrm @gsuberland AFAIK, the closed captioning on line 21 is encoded in the video, rather than being in the DVD metadata. At least, I don't recall seeing any metadata support for it in the DVD 1.0 spec, back when I had access to that.