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Re: bash quoting question




"Nadav Har'El" <nyh@math.technion.ac.il> writes:

> Yeah :) I always thought the name in the book (which obviously came before
> the film :) ) was chosen as a pun on IBM.

It has been acknowledged by the author.

> There's a similar rumor going around on why Windows NT was named "NT" -
> anybody knows what these letters should mean? I don't. Anyway, the rumor is
> that WNT was formed by taking "VMS" and adding one from each letter!

While I don't know if this rumour is true, it is highly plausible,
given that the core NT development team consisted of VMS people
(don't recall the names at the moment).

When I learned a bit or two about telephony I thought I found the
right meaning of NT: in telephony, it means "Network Termination".
Sounds about right.

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Oleg Goldshmidt | ogoldshmidt@NOSPAM.computer.org 
If it aint't broken it hasn't got enough features yet.

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