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From: fishkin@pixar.UUCP (Ken Fishkin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: UNIX NAME ABBREVIATIONS
Message-ID: <1192@pixar.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 30-Nov-87 16:29:38 EST
Article-I.D.: pixar.1192
Posted: Mon Nov 30 16:29:38 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 4-Dec-87 03:12:10 EST
References: <18799@bbn.COM> <199@wright.EDU>
Reply-To: fishkin@pixar.UUCP (Ken Fishkin)
Organization: Pixar -- Marin County, California
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In article <199@wright.EDU> jsloan@wright.EDU (John Sloan) writes:
>biff. Several months later a letter appeared by someone claiming
>to be the original author of biff, stating that the program was
>named after their dog.
    In the fall of '82, the Grad/Faculty/Staff bulletin board had a picture
of a dog named "Biff Studworth"; his .plan, I believe, was "Mail delivery
systems".
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Ken Fishkin	..ucbvax!pixar!fishkin