[TUHS] etymology of cron

Warren Toomey wkt at tuhs.org
Wed Dec 23 10:46:21 AEST 2015


On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 07:27:20PM -0500, Doug McIlroy wrote:
> Brian asked Ken, who confirmed,
> 
> "cron comes from the prefix (greek?) for time.
> it should have been chron, but i never could spell."

Doug, perhaps you could post a sanitised version of the e-mail
here (e-mail addresses removed), so it goes into the list
archive, hence it is visible on the web, hence it can be referred
to as a link in Wikipedia?

Your original e-mail is:
http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2015-December/004741.html

Cheers, Warren



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