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I always liked that dd story but it's probably not true -- it's based on the DD command in IBM JCL, which stood for "data definition".
by acheron 6y ago
I always liked that dd story but it's probably not true -- it's based on the DD command in IBM JCL, which stood for "data definition".
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- Sebb767 6y agoI've also heard disk dump, but this might be a backronym.
- p_l 6y agoNothing says it can't be both "incremented cc" and "DD from JCL" - especially when you consider the way the options are given, which I've heard from some Bell Labs sources long ago originated as joke on JCL