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Article #1408Re: Etymology time again...
From: k... Ken Yap
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1990 02:14
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1990 02:14
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|Ahh, finger. What a great name for a command. It has caused much amusement |for me in the past. Ah yes, that reminds me... Long before finger or even BSD, our Unix 32V system had a program called "pp", for personal profile. Our system had quotas and all that because it's hard otherwise to manage Vax resources for 50 or more simultaneous users. (Those were the bad old days.) So I went up to this girl and started off: You must be Kathy. Yes, how did you know? I did a "pp" on you. Well, shame on you. I wasn't so good at repartee in those days. I turned red.
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!bbn!rochester!ken From: k...@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Etymology time again... Message-ID: <1990Feb20.021432.13209@cs.rochester.edu> Date: 20 Feb 90 02:14:32 GMT References: <1990Feb19.014305.6165@cs.rochester.edu> <1990Feb19.153142.18624@world.std.com> <22351@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> Reply-To: k...@cs.rochester.edu Distribution: alt Organization: University of Rochester Computer Science Department Lines: 17 Posted: Tue Feb 20 03:14:32 1990 Address: Rochester, NY 14627, (716) 275-1448 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit