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Line editor for DEC PDP-6, ancestor of [[SOS]] '''Author:''' Unknown hacker '''Homepage:''' '''Family:''' LineEditorFamily DecFamily '''Platform:''' DEC PDP-6 '''License:''' Commercial ''From the [http://catb.org/jargon/html/index.html Jargon File:]'' '''SOS''' n.,obs. /S-O-S/ 1. An infamously {losing} text editor. Once, back in the 1960s, when a text editor was needed for the PDP-6, a hacker crufted together a {quick-and-dirty} `stopgap editor' to be used until a better one was written. Unfortunately, the old one was never really discarded when new ones (in particular, {TECO}) came along. SOS is a descendant (`Son of Stopgap') of that editor, and many PDP-10 users gained the dubious pleasure of its acquaintance. Since then other programs similar in style to SOS have been written, notably the early font editor BILOS /bye'lohs/, the Brother-In-Law Of Stopgap (the alternate expansion `Bastard Issue, Loins of Stopgap' has been proposed). 2. /sos/ n. To decrease; inverse of {AOS}, from the PDP-10 instruction set.
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