mark@UCLA-Security@sri-unix (06/06/82)
From: mark at UCLA-Security (Mark Kampe)
Date: 25 May 1982 0916-PDT (Tuesday)
At the summer 1977 users' group meeting in Champaign-Urbana, I stayed with
Steve Holmgren (as did Ken). One night, we were bs'ing about absurd things
and I asked Ken about the "amusing etymology". His reply was
.. ... Jesus! The worst user interface ever concieved!
It stood for "Delete from SWitches".
The memory was apparently a painful one for him, and he did not explain
to me exactly what the user interface was - but I believe that the "SWitches"
refers to the pdp/11 switch register. The rest is left as an exercise to
the reader.
---mark---