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I get to self-pedantipoint myself here, 'ls' does not stand for the Multics 'list segments' as I thought, it didn't mean 'list segments' in Multics either, that
by glurgh 13y ago
I get to self-pedantipoint myself here, 'ls' does not stand for the Multics 'list segments' as I thought, it didn't mean 'list segments' in Multics either, that's just folk etymology that's made it into Wikipedia (I just took it out).
http://alt.folklore.computers.narkive.com/7q9reknM/1950s-at-t-ibm-lack-of-collaboration.4 http://alt.folklore.computers.narkive.com/7q9reknM/1950s-at-...
Author of that post is Tom Van Vleck, who ought to know.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Van_Vleck http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Van_Vleck