Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Quentin Fennessy
Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 00:00

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In article <5mf90e$pkv@mozo.cc.purdue.edu>,
Vic Abell <abe@cc.purdue.edu> wrote:
>richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes:
>
>Dsw stood for the Russian "goodbye" -- das v'dania.  (Please pardon
>my mangling of the Cyrillic transliteration.)

Vic, I have seen a News posting  from Dennis Ritchie that states
that dsw(1) was derived from a name like delete-with-switches.
Unfortunately I cannot find my citation just now.

Perhaps dsw was also a pun?

-- 
Quentin Fennessy			AMD, Austin Texas

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From: quentin@hendrix.amd.com (Quentin Fennessy)
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/05/27
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