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Date:      Fri, 27 Sep 1996 11:00:31 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey), julian@whistle.com, current@FreeBSD.org, me@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: [Fwd: Acrobat Reader 3.0 Beta for Linux! (fwd)] 
Message-ID:  <1020.843814831@critter.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 27 Sep 1996 01:24:42 PDT." <756.843812682@time.cdrom.com> 

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In message <756.843812682@time.cdrom.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes:
>> In message <18101.843799721@time.cdrom.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes:
>> >> I like it; RC4 in postscript.  There are some _sick_ people out there 8)
>> >
>> >You've clearly never seen the turing machine written in vi. :-)
>> >[and I didn't even know you could DO that with vi!]
>> 
>> Uhm, where do you feed the paper tape in ?
>
>>From a file, of course.  It reads the paper tape file and executes it,
>using vi's `execute macro from buffer' feature to permute the
>instruction chain.  I remember giving Michael Elbel a copy - you
>still got it, Michael?

Hmm, now, someone talked about implementing vi(1) for a turing machine
a couple of years back, that would be the ultimative recursion :-)

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