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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in3.uu.net!144.212.95.13!nntprelay.mathworks.com!news.mathworks.com!news-peer.gsl.net!newsfeed.nacamar.de!azure.xara.net!xara.net!peernews.ftech.net!telehouse1.frontier-networks.co.uk!basilisk.pdc.nhs.gov.uk!yama.mcc.ac.uk!usenet From: Mark Stewart <mark.stewart@stud.umist.ac.uk> 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: Mon, 19 May 1997 16:29:37 +0000 Organization: UMIST Lines: 22 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <33807FF0.6A5E2D98@stud.umist.ac.uk> References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <5l37jg$87j$1@wuff.mayn.de> <5l7jvt$q8b$10@halon.vggas.com> <33776BE4.6883@ford.com> <337C64F0.41C6@cs.ucc.ie> <gCIU$zd@NewsReader.Com> NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.cds.umist.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; Linux 2.0.27 i486) CC: curt@kcwc.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:45174 comp.os.linux.misc:175974 comp.os.linux.x:61933 alt.os.linux:21357 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3331 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41190 gnu.misc.discuss:31376 comp.unix.solaris:106868 Curt Welch wrote: <Stuff snipped> > > As a quiz, how many people remember these directories, > what they were used for, and what their names mean. > > /sys/dmr > /sys/ken > > Curt Welch > http://CurtWelch.Com/ Well, I guess that ken = Ken Thompson and dmr = Dennis M Ritchie - hallowed be their names. As to what they were used for - I have not got the slightest hint of a clue :) Go on Curt - Tell all! Cheers Mark