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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things
Date: 11 Nov 1996 20:48:50 GMT
Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI
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In article <E0L92J.4tM@world.std.com>, Jeff DelPapa <dp@world.std.com> wrote:
> 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.

The original developers were working on ASR33 teletypes at 110 baud
and slower.

-- 
</peter>