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From: genew@mindlink.bc.ca (Gene Wirchenko)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things
Date: Sat, 09 Nov 1996 08:01:32 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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dp@world.std.com (Jeff DelPapa) wrote:
>In article <560146$t9c@mail1.wg.waii.com>,
>Mark Whetzel <markw@zeus.wg.waii.com> wrote:
>>Following up to my own post...
>>
>>In comp.unix.misc Mark Whetzel <markw@zeus.wg.waii.com> wrote:
>>: I was having a discussion with some of my co-workers on WHY things
>>: are named as they are in UNIX. Anybody have some of the
>>: tales behind the odd things that bound in unix history?
>>
>Biff was someones dog that barked when the mailman came.
>The biggest conclusion that you can draw from the oldest of unix
>commands, (cp,rm,ln,cmp, and directories like /tmp /usr) is that the
^
Look! There's one now! Don't let it get away!
rm -r /usr
Oh, too late!
>original authors were vwl alrgc.
And Unix is usually written in C. Aha, a conspiracy.
><dp>
>(or possibly native Check speakers who had vowels, but never wrote
>them down. ex: Plzn, a town famous for its beer. If I remeber
>correctly, Dave Barry speculates that all the excess vowels were sold
>to the Hawiians)
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
C Pronunciation Guide:
y=x++; "wye equals ex plus plus semicolon"
x=x++; "ex equals ex doublecross semicolon"