Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: L. Scott Emmons
Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 00:00

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Curt Welch wrote:
> 
> : As a quiz, how many people remember these directories,
> : what they were used for, and what their names mean.
>
> : /sys/dmr
> 
> [...]  I have a faint memory of trying to figure
> out what dmr stood for.  Device Managment Routines?

No, it was actually DMR for Dennis M. Ritchie.

Now, who knows what the M. stands for! :-)

-Scott
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From: "L. Scott Emmons" <scotte@center.uscs.com>
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/05/21
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