jaw@ames-lm.UUCP (James A. Woods) (04/19/84)
# When a woman loses her mystery, she is finished forever.
-- Yves St. Laurent,
"Opium" debut celebration, 1979
Kudos to research!dmr for posting the v1 (?) dsw man page.
Certainly more revealing than the v6 "etymology is amusing" line.
My misinformation source was a letter to Datamation (Jan. 1982),
in turn a followup to the infamous Nov. '81 Datamation article
"The Trouble with UNIX" by Donald Norman. DSW remains Russian
amateur radio argot.
Of course, even rm -i doesn't do the trick for certain filenames.
Go ahead, make a mistake saving a previous news article and type
after [ynq]
s - typo
Makes you want a trashcan icon!
Any other nuggets from early manuals are welcome. Since the
journal "Annals of the History of Computing" welcomes computer lore
of >= 15 years age, it's getting about time ... I always liked
the one about how Tom Ferrin at UCSF cut traces on PDP 11/70 circuit boards
to get FORTRAN variable parameter passing to work (:login;, circa 1978?).
-- James A. Woods {dual,hplabs,hao,research}!ames-lm!jaw