Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Guy Harris
Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 00:00

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(Followups to "comp.unix.misc"; this is a pretty damn miscellaneous
discussion at this point - there's no "comp.unix.trivia" group,
alas....)

Kevin Hudson  <kevinh@hstn.tensor.pgs.*NOSPAM*.com> wrote:
>this implies that su = Super User

...in System V.

>AT&T invented UNIX

...and had more than one flavor of it.  All their flavors may ultimately
have derived from Research UNIX, and, from another posting (with
Message-ID <5m6k1g$2v2@uriah.heep.sax.de>), it appears that the Seventh
Edition of the manual for Research UNIX said:

	NAME
	     su  -  substitute user id temporarily

>QED: The official definition of su is Super User

It was what was to be demonstrated, but it hasn't yet been
demonstrated....

Maybe V6 called it "super-user", if it only let you become "root" (as I
remember was the case, but that was over 20 years ago...), but, as V7's
let you become users *other* than the super-user, "super user" wouldn't
have been the best expansion of "su".

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From: guy@netapp.com (Guy Harris)
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/05/24
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