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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!miwok!ultra.sonic.net!not-for-mail From: Tom Porter <mendonet@zapcom.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.solaris Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list? Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 13:13:38 -0700 Organization: Hotel California Lines: 21 Message-ID: <337E1172.CBC@zapcom.net> References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <3378D37F.462F3A47@gaijin.com> <Pine.SUN.3.95.970513170134.19438A-100000@omni2> <5lanj7$6r4@netaxs.com> <5ldu0d$n40@cicsun.univ-bpclermont.fr> <337C74CC.33E7@amtelcom.com> <5ljb7s$spn@delphi.cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: mendonet@zapcom.net NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp3-6.zapcom.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win16; U) To: Scott Michel <scottm@cs.ucla.edu> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:45154 comp.os.linux.misc:175921 comp.os.linux.x:61906 alt.os.linux:21347 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3320 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41156 gnu.misc.discuss:31366 comp.unix.solaris:106843 Scott Michel wrote: > > pip == peripheral interchange program. > > (It came from DEC's PDP-11 RSTS operating system, and had an incantation > on the PDP-8 as well. Ahhh ... those were the days... when you had to boot > a paper tape to boot a mag tape ... And I'm not that old, either.) > > -scottm I can remember seeing an early ad for a 'Computer Kit': Build Your OWN PDP-11!!! It was a real attention getter then (as the PDP-11 was that which all were measured against)!! It's amazing how far we've come in such a short time! Paddlin' Fast, Tom -- http://www.zapcom.net/~mendonet.lessSpam/