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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!bonkers!web.nmti.com!peter From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things Date: 11 Nov 1996 20:48:50 GMT Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI Lines: 10 Message-ID: <5683fi$3kj@web.nmti.com> References: <55vhpf$q3o@mail1.wg.waii.com> <560146$t9c@mail1.wg.waii.com> <E0L92J.4tM@world.std.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sonic.nmti.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:26290 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1469 alt.folklore.computers:124428 In article <E0L92J.4tM@world.std.com>, Jeff DelPapa <dp@world.std.com> wrote: > 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 > original authors were vwl alrgc. The original developers were working on ASR33 teletypes at 110 baud and slower. -- </peter>