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In article <22...@opus.cs.mcgill.ca>, pet...@opus.cs.mcgill.ca (Peter Deutsch) writes:
> I mentioned "awk", and yacc in a previous posting as
> being strangely named UNIX programs. (Awk is the initials
> of the guys who wrote it, Yacc is "Yet Another Compiler
> Compiler"). How about other creatively named programs?
> Perhaps (and preferably) with a joke in the name or
> otherwise suitably obscure? I know lots in UNIX, others?
> Maybethose with nested recursive acronyms (HASP - Houston
> Automated Spool Program, SPOOL - Simultaneous Operations
> [On|Off] Line. Something like that). Anyways, what's the
> weirdest _you've_ heard or seen?

I once wrote a program called MK for Minimal Kohnhedd. You see, the object
of this program was to provide a quick and dirty interface to the 1553
avionics bus from the VAX. I was told "Make it just like the CONIC [a 1553
test box] only on the VAX". So I called it Kohnhedd as a play on CONIC. I
added Minimal to emphasize to the users that it was a first version and they
were free to make suggestions.

Last time I was there, I saw MK running on a terminal. It'll probably live
forever.
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