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Subject: Re: The truth about cat
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Date: Mon, 19-Oct-87 08:51:00 EDT
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Written  3:47 am  Oct 17, 1987 by dmr@alice.UUCP (Dennis Ritchie)
>Good grief.  I've been taunted enough.
[....]
>daemon	dates to CTSS whence it came to Multics and Unix.
                 ^^^^
>runoff	was Saltzer's very early formatting program on CTSS.  Probably
                                                       ^^^^
>	the later ASCII version on CTSS was called roff, but in any event,...
                                   ^^^^
Now you're out to taunt us back, eh?  ;-)
What are you referring to when you use the abbreviation CTSS?  Around here
it stands for "CRAY Time-Sharing System", and not only do I think that it
does not use daemons or runoff, but it also came into use *after* Multics
and Unix.  That's why I think you mean something else than what it seems
to me; do you, and if so, what is it *really*?

I'm not saying you got it wrong, I'm saying I'd like to know what you're
using CTSS to stand for.
_____
D. J. McCarthy