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From: khchung@maths.unsw.EDU.AU (Kin Hoong CHUNG)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things
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Date: 15 Nov 1996 07:14:32 GMT
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Steve Blinkhorn (steve@fastnet.prd.co.uk) wrote:
: This discussion is getting seriously nostalgic for me, what with
: ASR-33s (which were in fact introduced as subversive micro-confetti
: manufacturing devices, since any attempt to *read* a paper tape of any
: length invariably resulted in two shorter paper tapes), PDP-10s
: (favourite memory: DEC engineer leaving computer room talking to chief
: systems programer ``It's a software problem'' as smoke started to
: issue from cabinet), someone who knows how to pronounce daemon
: properly.
: Next we'll be hearing from people who know what it was like to have no
: more than 100K 36-bit words to do real programming in.
: Is there a comp.nostalgia group (INPUT IN CAPS ONLY at 10cps, wearing
: ear defenders)?
Don't know where you are reading this from... but this is supposed to
be the purpose of alt.folklore.ocmputers, and the moderated
comp.society.folklore are for. Well, in principle anyway, as it is clear
that too many people misuse alt.folklore.computers.
ObTopic: more on UNIX has an obvious name, and less is a pun on more.
ObFolklore: remember when more was a simple pager which did nothing other
than stopping the page running away from you?
Cheers,
Kin Hoong