[TUHS] etymology of cron

David Ryskalczyk d235j.1 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 23 12:01:24 AEST 2015


An email to this list from ken, or quoting his email here, probably would help, as
that could be cited. Additionally this should be mentioned on the talk page — it
seems rather known that the acronyms may not be all that accurate.

David

> On Dec 22, 2015, at 8:59 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at lemis.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday, 22 December 2015 at 20:11:54 -0500, John Cowan wrote:
>> Greg 'groggy' Lehey scripsit:
>> 
>>> Can we get ken to post the information here?  Then we would have a
>>> reference for the change.
>> 
>> Internet-only source and a primary source at that.  There's nothing
>> you can do at this point.
> 
> There are plenty of other examples of sources from the web.  I suspect
> that if Doug had revealed his identity in the commit, it might not
> have been backed out.
> 
> Greg
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