2014/11/20 15:17 "Bret Busby" <bret.bu...@gmail.com>: > > [...] > Interesting that the allusion to awk and sed, missed the mark, on this list... > > :) > [...]
Just too pre-occupied to respond, although my memory is that the names were chosen in part for those puns. Joel Rees Computer memory is just fancy paper, CPUs just fancy pens. All is a stream of text flowing from the past into the future.