From: utzoo!decvax!cca!mark@UCLA-Security@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: etymology of DSW
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.1645
Posted: Sun Jun  6 12:52:30 1982
Received: Mon Jun  7 00:53:24 1982

From: mark at UCLA-Security (Mark Kampe)
Date: 25 May 1982 0916-PDT (Tuesday)
At the summer 1977 users' group meeting in Champaign-Urbana, I stayed with
Steve Holmgren (as did Ken).  One night, we were bs'ing about absurd things
and I asked Ken about the "amusing etymology".  His reply was

     .. ... Jesus!  The worst user interface ever concieved!
     It stood for "Delete from SWitches".  

The memory was apparently a painful one for him, and he did not explain
to me exactly what the user interface was - but I believe that the "SWitches"
refers to the pdp/11 switch register.  The rest is left as an exercise to
the reader.
---mark---