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David F. here, with the best true Unix command-name story ever: In the late 1980's, Frame Technology had 50 or 100 employees, and as our product ran on Sun 3/50
by drfuchs 8y ago
David F. here, with the best true Unix command-name story ever: In the late 1980's, Frame Technology had 50 or 100 employees, and as our product ran on Sun 3/50 workstations, not only the engineers, but many of the admins had them; and of course they all ran the SunOS version of Unix.
One day, Laurie S. from the business side came over to ask me for some help with her system: "I think I've filled up my disk, but how can I find out?" "Well, the 'df' command will show you that info." "But," she replied, "won't that just show me the files in your home directory?" "My home directory??? Why would it do that?" "Well, my initials are LS and that shows my files, and DF are your initials, so that should show your files."
I was super impressed.
- gonzo 8y agoAt Sun there was a salesperson, formerly of DEC, who had been taught, in DEC salestraining, that PDP (as in PDP-11/70) stood for “Pink and Dark Purple”, so they could recognize their machines in the lab.
- rmetzler 8y agoI'm glad nobody taught me that.
- dotancohen 8y agoSometimes it only works with a trailing slash.