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DEC Wars
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DEC Wars /n./ A 1983 Usenet posting by Alan Hastings and
Steve Tarr spoofing the "Star Wars" movies in hackish terms.
Some years later, ESR (disappointed by Hastings and Tarr's failure
to exploit a great premise more thoroughly) posted a 3-times-longer
complete rewrite called "Unix WARS"; the two are often
confused.
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