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  There's a program called SSH to get to another CPU.
  Tilde is the escape, it's doubled to send it through,
  And "quit" is tilde-.

I think you know how the rest goes...

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I don't - and in fact I finally got around to creating a HN account in order to ask you. Googling that just leads me back to this discussion. What's it from?

It's parodying "the TELNET song," by Guy L. Steele.

For more information: http://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com/2004/01/telnet-song-g...

If you have an ACM subscription, the sheet music was published in Communications of the ACM (Volume 27, Issue 4; April 1984): http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1035691

What does this reference?

I am not sure, but it looks vaguely familiar. There is a text-based game called adventure game called Dunnet where you come across a CPU card, and do some stuff with it later on. As far as I remember, the game predates SSH, so the game either had Telnet or FTP. My memory fades.

It references "The TELNET Song" by Guy L. Steele (a.k.a The Great Quux). The original is about Telnet, and given the subject of discussion, the reference seemed a natural one to make.

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