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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!206.154.70.8!news.webspan.net!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.indiana.edu!not-for-mail From: Sam Hostetter <shostett@indiana.edu> 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: Wed, 21 May 1997 14:48:38 -0500 Organization: Indiana University Lines: 28 Message-ID: <33835196.26726709@indiana.edu> 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> <337FC571.2786@bton.ac.uk> <i5pB$6V@NewsReader.Com> NNTP-Posting-Host: phobos.tuliptree.indiana.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; Linux 2.0.29 i486) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:45264 comp.os.linux.misc:176349 comp.os.linux.x:62160 alt.os.linux:21449 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3358 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41363 gnu.misc.discuss:31408 comp.unix.solaris:107119 Curt Welch wrote: > > [Fewer Headers] > > I wrote: > : As a quiz, how many people remember these directories, > : what they were used for, and what their names mean. > > : /sys/dmr > : /sys/ken > Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie? > > ... trying to figure out what dmr stood for. Device Managment Routines? > I suppose if one where to look at the authors' names, one might find a clue. Perhaps dmr = Dennis M Ritchie and ken = Ken Thompson? -- Sam ----------------------------------------------- Sam Hostetter shostett@indiana.edu http://ezinfo.ucs.indiana.edu/~shostett "The web is to the internet as TV was to radio" -----------------------------------------------