Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Origin/meaning of zoo, looz, fiz, stuff, etc. Message-ID: <1466@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Date: 25 Oct 89 17:29:21 GMT References: Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Distribution: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Organization: GE Corp R&D Center Lines: 16 In article , kerce@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Kingsley F. Kerce) writes: | I've made use of Zoo and its accompaniments for over a year now, but I | still am missing on the origin/meaning of `zoo' and `looz'. I first met zoo back when pkarc, zoo, and dwc were having a battle on Magpie, with new versions coming out almost weekly. One of the common commands for zoo is "xoo" which most people would pronounce as "zoo". I think that there was a program called "ooz" (zoo backwards) and that looz was "little ooz." If Rahul is following this thread he can clarify it. -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called 'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see that the world is flat!" - anon