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Old July 22nd 08, 08:39 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Jim Logajan
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Default OT: xyzzy

"Jon Woellhaf" wrote:
Just curious ... How many of you know the origin of xyzzy, without
cheating and looking it up?


Nothing happens.

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

Let's just say that I do 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.