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_at_siconic.com
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