Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Dan Pop
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In <5ljb7s$spn@delphi.cs.ucla.edu> Scott Michel <scottm@cs.ucla.edu> writes:

>pip == peripheral interchange program.
>
>(It came from DEC's PDP-11 RSTS operating system, and had an incantation
> on the PDP-8 as well. Ahhh ... those were the days... when you had to boot
> a paper tape to boot a mag tape ... And I'm not that old, either.)

Or even worse: load a primary boot loader from the switch register,
run it to load a secondary boot loader from paper tape which would finally
boot the system, from paper tape again.  Mag tapes were for the lucky
ones :-)

Dan
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From: Dan.Pop@cern.ch (Dan Pop)
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/05/17
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