From: "Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>
Subject: Re: Why do so many companies use Apex?
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 10:51:58 +0200
Date: 2001-03-28T10:51:58+02:00 [thread overview]
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"Phaedrus" <phaedrusalt@hotmail.com> a �crit dans le message news: Un5w6.1633$aP5.137062@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net...
> I'm still hunting the ding-dong who first thought that "ls" was a good name for
> "dir" under Unix.)
>
A piece of history:
Under Multics, there were no "files"; everything was considered as memory "segments", some of which could be named (making the
equivalent of a file). You had therefore a command to List Segments: ls.
Unix was built after Multics (its name is actually a pun for a simpler Multics), and the name of the command was kept.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-28 8:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-26 20:13 Why do so many companies use Apex? Phaedrus
2001-03-26 20:56 ` Ted Dennison
2001-03-26 22:18 ` Phaedrus
2001-03-27 15:49 ` Florian Weimer
2001-03-26 21:25 ` William Dale
2001-03-26 21:52 ` Corey Ashford
2001-03-26 22:29 ` William Dale
2001-03-26 22:43 ` Phaedrus
2001-03-26 23:09 ` Corey Ashford
2001-03-26 23:57 ` Phaedrus
2001-03-27 0:24 ` Phaedrus
2001-03-27 13:19 ` Marc A. Criley
2001-03-27 17:33 ` Pascal Obry
2001-03-27 21:04 ` Gautier de Montmollin
2001-03-27 21:08 ` Corey Ashford
2001-03-27 22:04 ` Keith Thompson
2001-03-27 23:17 ` Corey Ashford
2001-03-28 14:44 ` Ted Dennison
2001-03-28 7:12 ` Pascal Obry
2001-03-27 16:08 ` Jerry Petrey
2001-03-27 18:56 ` Phaedrus
2001-03-28 8:37 ` Martin Dowie
2001-03-29 14:40 ` Martin Dowie
2001-03-28 8:51 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen [this message]
2001-03-28 16:30 ` Corey Ashford
2001-04-04 21:58 ` James A. Krzyzanowski
2001-04-06 18:50 ` Ben Brosgol
2001-04-08 5:19 ` Lao Xiao Hai
2001-03-28 1:52 ` Phaedrus
2001-03-28 1:57 ` Phaedrus
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