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From: olapw@olgb1.oliv.co.uk (Tony Walton)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards,news.misc,rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: History
Message-ID: <216@olgb1.oliv.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 19-Oct-87 09:23:04 EST
Article-I.D.: olgb1.216
Posted: Mon Oct 19 09:23:04 1987
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Organization: British Olivetti Ltd.,OEM/VAR Division, London, England.
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Keywords: History, foo, bar
Summary: Origin of "foo"
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I heard that "foo" meant "File of Obscure Origin", and when all the foo files
disppeared from all the Unix systems around the world, Unix would die out and
VMS (whatever that is :-)) would take over the world...