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Ashley Moran
work at ashleymoran.me.uk
Wed Sep 14 03:54:15 PDT 2005
Bob Johnson wrote:
> On 9/11/05, legalois <legalois at acm.org> wrote:
>
>>legalois wrote:
>>
>>According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Root)
>>The name of a famous American baseball player (1899-1970) "...gives rise
>>to the name used for many "root" system accounts under the UNIX
>>operating system."
>>But that does not explain when, how or why?
>
Hmmm
I sent this once but it never made it to the list... so this is a test
also to see if I can actually post.
I wondered if the joke is that if you spell Charlie's name which his
initials you get C H Root? Or is that too obvious?
Ashley
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