On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 12:31 AM, Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 5:59 PM, Ian Zimmerman <itz@very.loosely.org> wrote:
> On 2018-02-15 17:25, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
>
>> I know one of the Franz founders, I'll ask him when I have a chance.
>
> So, the main link seems to be John Foderaro, who worked on both BSD and Franz.
>
> According to my source, he wrote biff(1).

I had been of the impression that biff(1) was named after a dog

Indeed - Biff was Heidi's dog.

that

barked at the slightest provocation...

Hmm, I'm not sure that is fair. Biff just warned Heidi that someone had entered their office.