The Story of Mel (1983)

[pjmlp]

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html

[vidarh]

There's also this site with a heavily annotated version which also links to an article about the real life Mel Kaye:

https://melsloop.com/

[suprjami → vidarh]

Very cool. It's nice to read more about this legend. I can't believe he was still around until 2018!

[vidarh → suprjami]

Just a shame he didn't seem interested in discussing it.

[suprjami]

My favourite story from the Jargon File.

This version of ESR's is the best online because of the footnotes it includes about finding Mel.