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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!csn!nntp-xfer-1.csn.net!cbgw1.lucent.com!cnn.Princeton.EDU!yuma.Princeton.EDU!adam From: adam@yuma.Princeton.EDU (Adam J. Thornton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things Date: 15 Nov 1996 15:54:42 GMT Organization: Princeton University Lines: 15 Message-ID: <56i3o2$mls@cnn.Princeton.EDU> References: <55vhpf$q3o@mail1.wg.waii.com> <E0tAts.BAr.0.queen@torfree.net> <56g0mm$gpf@web.nmti.com> <56g31n$9av@panix2.panix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: yuma-subnet124.princeton.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:26442 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1512 alt.folklore.computers:124639 In article <56g31n$9av@panix2.panix.com>, Melinda Shore <shore@nomt.com> wrote: >evaluator," but that at that trade show you mentioned Gates >was embarrassed to find "rgpe" nuxied into "grep" by a >filesystem bug in the 8086 port. The rest, as they say, is >history. It was just an endianness problem, anyway. Only a filesystem bug in the most tangential sense. Adam -- "I'd buy me a used car lot, and | adam@princeton.edu | As B/4 | Save the choad! I'd never sell any of 'em, just | "Skippy, you little fool, you are off on an- drive me a different car every day | other of your senseless and retrograde depending on how I feel.":Tom Waits| little journeys.": Thomas Pynchon | 64,928