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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!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!pad-thai.cam.ov.com!usenet From: pete.barber@openv.co.uk (Pete Barber) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 10:19:21 GMT Organization: OpenVision Technologies, Inc. Lines: 3 Message-ID: <3286fd63.1215327@news.ov.com> References: <55vhpf$q3o@mail1.wg.waii.com> <560146$t9c@mail1.wg.waii.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 166.98.110.52 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/32.230 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:26265 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1461 alt.folklore.computers:124386 On this theme, do you know wy the language forth is spelt such. It was supposed to be a foUrth generation language but the IBM it was written on only supported five letter commands hence forth.