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From: "L. Scott Emmons" <scotte@center.uscs.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 13:38:35 -0700
Organization: CableData R&D Center, El Dorado Hills, CA, USA
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Curt Welch wrote:
>
> : As a quiz, how many people remember these directories,
> : what they were used for, and what their names mean.
>
> : /sys/dmr
>
> [...] I have a faint memory of trying to figure
> out what dmr stood for. Device Managment Routines?
No, it was actually DMR for Dennis M. Ritchie.
Now, who knows what the M. stands for! :-)
-Scott
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