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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news1.best.com!nntp1.best.com!shellx!kbibb 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: 9 Nov 1996 20:58:04 -0800 Organization: BEST Internet Communications Lines: 19 Message-ID: <kbibb.847601696@shellx> References: <55vhpf$q3o@mail1.wg.waii.com> <560146$t9c@mail1.wg.waii.com> <E0L92J.4tM@world.std.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: shellx.best.com X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #6 (NOV) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:26229 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1451 alt.folklore.computers:124313 In <E0L92J.4tM@world.std.com> dp@world.std.com (Jeff DelPapa) writes: >Biff was someones dog that barked when the mailman came. Heidi Stettner's dog. (See Peter Salus's "A Quarter Century of Unix" for more details.) >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... -- 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"