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From: kbibb@best.com (Ken Bibb)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things
Date: 11 Nov 1996 20:18:15 -0800
Organization: BEST Internet Communications
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In <56678u$41p@windigo.d-and-d.com> dnichols@d-and-d.com (DoN. Nichols) writes:

>In article <kbibb.847601696@shellx>, Ken Bibb <kbibb@best.com> wrote:
>>In <E0L92J.4tM@world.std.com> dp@world.std.com (Jeff DelPapa) writes:
>>>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.
>>
>>Most likely due to the amount of pressure required to depress the
>>keys on a Decwriter...

>	I *hope* that you mean a Teletype.

Yes, I meant a teletype--we used them on an HP mainframe during the
70s.  The Decwriters I was exposed to were attached to a TOPS-20 system...

-- 
Ken Bibb                "If the boundary breaks I'm no longer alone
kbibb@arastar.com        Don't discourage me
kbibb@best.com           Bring out the stars/On the first day"
kbibb@csd.sgi.com               David Sylvian--"The First Day"