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From: dje@5941ux.UUCP
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Subject: Re: another etymology
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Date: Mon, 1-Aug-83 14:20:14 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  1 14:20:14 1983
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Regarding the etymology of FINGER:

In the mid '70s, when I was using ITS (the Incompatible Timesharing System),
the program to identify all the users logged in was called "NAME" and not
"FINGER".  However, the Stanford system's counterpart program in use at the 
same time was called "FINGER."