On Sun, 4 Oct 1998, Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote:
The Sun
company name is derived from
this college acronym.
Stanford University Network
Is this from Bill Joy? Is he trying to make sure that
Um, this is pretty well-known lore.
Hell, even guys from Stanford don't name their
companies
after the school -- the closest I can think is Cromemco,
founded by 3? guys who hung out in the Crowder Memorial
building, I think it was a dormitory when they were there.
Crothers Memorial Hall.
Korn, Bourne
and C are all versions of
this.
Unix command shells
Technically, they are all _examples_ of this, not
versions. Especially since there are _versions_ of
each that work under MS-DOS (for instance).
Correct. It should have been worded as you suggest.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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