From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,ce1e7170ab2bc91c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-03-28 01:12:04 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!logbridge.uoregon.edu!netnews.com!xfer02.netnews.com!oleane.net!oleane!nnrp.oleane.net!not-for-mail From: "Jean-Pierre Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Why do so many companies use Apex? Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 10:51:58 +0200 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: <99s9ij$os5$1@s1.read.news.oleane.net> References: <_pNv6.15345$ue1.1278082@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net> <3AC0BB04.CF7F3631@west.raytheon.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhost.axlog.fr X-Trace: s1.read.news.oleane.net 985770387 25477 195.25.228.57 (28 Mar 2001 09:06:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@oleane.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 09:06:27 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:6157 Date: 2001-03-28T10:51:58+02:00 List-Id: "Phaedrus" 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. -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr