Re: Strange and wonderful prog names

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From: k... Ken Sallenger
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 1990 21:52

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I almost forgot two wonderful acronyms which came from MS theses in the
Computer Science Dept. here:

1)  We had a PDP-11 running various flavors of v7 and 2bsd UNIX, which had
an 8-inch floppy drive.  Addressing our need to read floppies in formats
from other systems, one student wrote the MUltiple-Format Floppy
Interface: MUFFI

2)  Another student devised an access method (ask your local mainframe
sufferers about access methods :-) for a little database system.  I'm
sorry that I can't remember the full name, but the acronym was a
take-off on all those wonderful IBMisms like ISAM, VTAM, etc: IBDAM

-- 
     Ken Sallenger / k...@bigbird.csd.scarolina.edu / +1 803 777-9334
     Computer Services Division / 1244 Blossom ST / Columbia, SC 29208

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From: k...@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu (Ken Sallenger)
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