According to one hacker
legend, the machine got its nickname because it
required a smaller PDP-11 machine to power its
terminal. One hacker, upon viewing the KL-10-PDP-11
setup for the first time, likened it to the wizard's
bombastic onscreen introduction in the Wizard of Oz. "I
am the great and powerful Oz," the hacker intoned. "Pay
no attention to the PDP-11 behind that console."See
http://www.as.cmu.edu/~geek/humor/See_Figure_1.txt
If hackers laughed when they first encountered the
KL-10, their laughter quickly died when they
encountered Twenex. Not only did Twenex boast built-in
security, but the system's software engineers had
designed the tools and applications with the security
system in mind. What once had been a cat-and-mouse game
over passwords in the case of the Laboratory for
Computer Science's security system, now became an
out-and-out battle over system management. System
administrators argued that without security, the Oz
system was more prone to accidental crashes. Hackers
argued that crashes could be better prevented by
overhauling the source code.
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