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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.kei.com!uhog.mit.edu!entertainment-tonight.ai.mit.edu!ai-lab!usenet From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.solaris Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list? Date: 16 May 1997 01:48:09 -0400 Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab Lines: 17 Sender: joelh@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu Distribution: inet Message-ID: <sejenb8otly.fsf@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <Pine.SUN.3.95.970513170134.19438A-100000@omni2> <Pine.GSO.3.96.970513200952.7143D-100000@tree.Stanford.EDU> <EA6HHD.AAF@serval.net.wsu.edu> <EA7MIG.6JD@zebra.alphacdc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:45132 comp.os.linux.misc:175835 comp.os.linux.x:61856 alt.os.linux:21307 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3307 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41123 gnu.misc.discuss:31353 comp.unix.solaris:106805 vern@zebra.alphacdc.com (Vern Hoxie) writes: > 'bss' was the name of a register on the IBM mainframe used to run early > UNIX by Ritchie et al. I thought that Unix was brewed on PDPs. Happy hacking, joelh -- http://www.wp.com/piquan --- Joel Ray Holveck --- joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu All my opinions are my own, not the Free Software Foundation's. Second law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation -- core dumped