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From: tjfs@otter.hple.hp.com (Tim Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: The origin of 'KERMIT' (Was Re: Origin of 'awk')
Message-ID: <1590005@otter.hple.hp.com>
Date: 25 Mar 88 12:24:53 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.
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I have also seen (in Kermit documentation) the assertion that Kermit was used
as it is the Celtic [sic] word for 'free'.

Tim