Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Curt Welch
Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 00:00

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Sam Hostetter <shostett@indiana.edu> wrote:
> Curt Welch wrote:
> > ... trying to figure out what dmr stood for.  Device Managment Routines?
> >

Sam Hostetter <shostett@indiana.edu> wrote:
> I suppose if one where to look at the authors' names, one might find a
> clue.  Perhaps dmr = Dennis M Ritchie and ken = Ken Thompson?

Obviously.  I already said that. But I guess my comment about
"Device Management Routines" wasn't very clear judging by the
number of people that pointed this out to me. Let me try again:

   I remember trying to figure out what dmr and ken must have
   stood for back when I was looking at the V6 source code
   over 20 years ago (before learning about Ken Thompson
   and Dennis Ritchie).  Was ken a strange way to spell Kernel?
   Was dmr something like "Device Managment Routines"? :)

Curt Welch
http://CurtWelch.Com/

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From: curt@kcwc.com (Curt Welch)
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/05/21
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