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Re: bash quoting question



On Saturday 13 October 2001 00:54, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 13, 2001, Ehud Karni wrote about "Re: bash quoting question":
> >     echo "IBMA ?" | ( IFS="|" ; $A )
> >
> > BTW. Any one knows why I choose the above example (Hint: film) ?
>
> Yeah :) I always thought the name in the book (which obviously came before
> the film :) ) was chosen as a pun on IBM.
>
> There's a similar rumor going around on why Windows NT was named "NT" -
> anybody knows what these letters should mean? I don't.
They used to say "New Technology" once upon a time. It has been forgotten 
many years ago :-) Windows 2000 is "based on NT technology", which is 
redundant somehow, so to say :-)
> Anyway, the rumor is
> that WNT was formed by taking "VMS" and adding one from each letter!
That's exactly how KDE was formed. K = L ( Linux ) - 1. That's according to 
KDE team own explanation.

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