Its origins are with TENEX and from there TOPS-20. TOPS-20 was ubiquitous in computer science departments in the early 80s when I worked at DEC. The release o

Its origins are with TENEX and from there TOPS-20. TOPS-20 was ubiquitous in computer science departments in the early 80s when I worked at DEC. The release of TENEX precedes the release of Unix by a year or so and the release of the first BSD by seven years. If you want the etymological roots for this, you would need to ask Dan Murphy or one of his contemporaries: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Murphy_(computer_scientist https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Murphy_(computer_scie...