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• kremvax /krem-vaks/ n. [from the then large number of Usenet VAXen with names of the form foovax] Originally
  a fictitious Usenet site at the Kremlin, announced on April 1, 1984 in a posting ostensibly originated there by Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko....
• This put me in mind of a story i have long enjoyed, but never known the source of.
  A young man went to Socrates and asked to be taught....
• The Seventh Edition licensing procedures are, I suppose, still in effect, though I doubt that tapes are available from AT&T.
  At any rate, whatever restrictions the license imposes still exist....
• Guru Saj: You must be Ross. Ross: Hi. Guru Saj: I am Guru Saj.
  (takes the drawer back and replaces) Ross: Listen, I got to tell you I_ve-I_ve never been to a guru before, so....
• The following is a memo from the superintendent of the Mylar school district.
  "A recent six-month study, in which breakfast was made available at school for 100 schoolchildren ages five to twelve, found that children on the breakfast plan were less likely than other children to be absent from or late for school....
• Unix conspiracy n. [ITS] According to a conspiracy theory long popular among ITS and TOPS-20 fa
  Unix's growth is the result of a plot, hatched during the 1970s at Bell Labs, whose intent was to hobble AT&...
• ITS /I-T-S/ n. 1. Incompatible Time-sharing System, an influential though highly idiosyncratic operating system written for PDP-6s and PDP-10s at MIT and long used at the MIT AI Lab.
  Much AI-hacker jargon derives from ITS folklore, and to have been `an ITS hacker' qualifies one instantly as an old-timer of the most venerable sort....
• Great Runes n. Uppercase-only text or display messages.
  Some archaic operating systems still emit these....
• Hacking X for Y n. [ITS] Ritual phrasing of part of the information which ITS made publicly available about each user.
  This information (the INQUIR record) was a sort of form in which the user could fill out various fields....