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religion of CHI
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/ki:/ , n. [Case Western Reserve University] Yet another hackish parody
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religion (see also Church of the SubGenius , Discordianism ). In the
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mid-70s, the canonical Introduction to Programming courses at CWRU were
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taught in Algol, and student exercises were punched on cards and run on a
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Univac 1108 system using a homebrew operating system named CHI. The religion
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had no doctrines and but one ritual: whenever the worshiper noted that a
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digital clock read 11:08, he or she would recite the phrase It is 11:08;
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ABS, ALPHABETIC, ARCSIN, ARCCOS, ARCTAN. The last five words were the first
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five functions in the appropriate chapter of the Algol manual; note the
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special pronunciations /obz/ and /arksin/ rather than the more common /ahbz/
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and /arksi:n/. Using an alarm clock to warn of 11:08's arrival was
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considered harmful.
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