[TUHS] head/sed/tail (was The Unix shell: a 50-year view)

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Sat Jul 17 02:09:17 AEST 2021


On Fri, Jul 16, 2021, 1:38 AM <arnold at skeeve.com> wrote:

> Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
>
> > ... But it was good enough for me to write my OS group project running
> > under 'ZAYEF' a DecSystem-20 emulator running ...
>
> Fascinating. That's the Hebrew word used for "forgery" or "fakery".
> Appropriate for an emulator. Whoever named it both knew Hebrew and
> had a sense of humor. :-)
>

It was billed as not really a DECsystem 20, but a really good fake. Clearly
a nod to that meaning.

Warner

Arnold
>
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