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From: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Peter J. Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: The origin of 'KERMIT' (Was Re: Origin of 'awk')
Message-ID: <518@mccc.UUCP>
Date: 27 Mar 88 16:47:41 GMT
References: <1765@uqcspe.OZ> <1590005@otter.hple.hp.com>
Reply-To: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Peter J. Holsberg)
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In article <1590005@otter.hple.hp.com> tjfs@otter.hple.hp.com (Tim Steele) writes:
|I have also seen (in Kermit documentation) the assertion that Kermit was used
|as it is the Celtic [sic] word for 'free'.
|
|Tim


"Kermit" is the Celtic word for "Beat L.A."!  :-)
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