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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!163.181.251.1!news2.amd.com!txnntp.amd.com!hendrix.amd.com!quentin From: quentin@hendrix.amd.com (Quentin Fennessy) 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: 27 May 1997 21:08:37 GMT Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Austin, TX, USA Lines: 15 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5mfigl$dp9$1@amdint2.amd.com> References: <5ldtv3$jnm@eve.speakeasy.org> <slrn5nmfqo.dl7.hdm@stress.noc.demon.net> <EAK0sq.M8n@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <5mf90e$pkv@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: hendrix.amd.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:45485 comp.os.linux.misc:177376 comp.os.linux.x:62719 alt.os.linux:21638 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3433 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41756 gnu.misc.discuss:31516 comp.unix.solaris:107798 In article <5mf90e$pkv@mozo.cc.purdue.edu>, Vic Abell <abe@cc.purdue.edu> wrote: >richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes: > >Dsw stood for the Russian "goodbye" -- das v'dania. (Please pardon >my mangling of the Cyrillic transliteration.) Vic, I have seen a News posting from Dennis Ritchie that states that dsw(1) was derived from a name like delete-with-switches. Unfortunately I cannot find my citation just now. Perhaps dsw was also a pun? -- Quentin Fennessy AMD, Austin Texas