Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: cjt
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 1997 00:00

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Peter da Silva wrote:
> 
> The name of the program "su" is taken from the "setuid" system call and the
> "set user ID" bit. It's a two letter abbreviation because it was written by
> someone using a 110 baud ASR33 teletype with big ugly hard-to-press round
> keys.
> 
<snip>

This reminds me of the reason a Fortran code I once supported used the 
variable "U1" extensively as a temporary variable -- on a keypunch, the
"1" was a shifted "U," so "U1" could be typed very quickly.

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From: cjt <cjt@swbell.net>
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/06/08
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