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From: atbowler@thinkage.on.ca (Alan Bowler)
Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things
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Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 17:59:35 GMT
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In article <E0qH5n.2Jv@world.std.com> dp@world.std.com (Jeff DelPapa) writes:
>
>Make that an ASR-33.  The decwriter didn't exist when unix got
>written.  10 CPS, and oil everything but the ribbon.  

Why not not the ribbon?  A few drops of three in one was an easy
way to squeeze a little more life out of a ribbon cartridge on a
daisy wheel printer, it would probably work on TTY 33 or TTY 35 just
as well.