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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 Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!como.dpie.gov.au!news.gan.net.au!act.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!EU.net!CERN.ch!news.cern.ch!danpop From: Dan.Pop@cern.ch (Dan Pop) Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list? X-Nntp-Posting-Host: ues5.cern.ch Message-ID: <danpop.863902804@news.cern.ch> Sender: news@news.cern.ch (USENET News System) Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #18 (NOV) 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$spn@delphi.cs.ucla.edu> Distribution: inet Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 21:00:04 GMT Lines: 19 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:45146 comp.os.linux.misc:175910 comp.os.linux.x:61900 alt.os.linux:21341 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3315 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41148 gnu.misc.discuss:31361 comp.unix.solaris:106834 In <5ljb7s$spn@delphi.cs.ucla.edu> Scott Michel <scottm@cs.ucla.edu> writes: >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.) Or even worse: load a primary boot loader from the switch register, run it to load a secondary boot loader from paper tape which would finally boot the system, from paper tape again. Mag tapes were for the lucky ones :-) Dan -- Dan Pop CERN, IT Division Email: Dan.Pop@cern.ch Mail: CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 1-014, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland