Re: [SLUG] The origins of vmlinuz and mgetty

[Dean Hamstead]

someone could just email him and ask =)
since he still maintains mgetty i can only assume hes alive

Dean

Ken Yap wrote:

> |i came to think that peraps m stands for MIT, or alt. someones name
> |like Michael etc.
> 
> Not MIT, the author was a German, Gert Doering. His name, possibly, but
> it would have to be a middle initial or his mother's name or maybe even
> his site muc.de. People do name things that could possibly be a
> references to themselves, kind of a sly attempt at immortality. The
> French discover of gallium said that he named it after France (Gaul),
> but his name was LeCoq (Gallus) so it's suspected he wanted to sneak his
> name into the periodic table.



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