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[ih] What is the origin of the root account?
- Subject: [ih] What is the origin of the root account?
- From: mfidelman at meetinghouse.net (Miles Fidelman)
- Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 20:15:15 -0400
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
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Dave Crocker wrote:
>
> On 4/13/2013 12:01 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
>> My
>> PDP11/45 processor handbook is (C)1973. Of course, at that time, DEC
>> couldn't even spell u-n-i-x.
>
>
> Let's be fair: That early, almost no one outside the Labs could (and
> I suspect precious could, even within the Labs...)
>
which does bring this to mind:
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1993-11-09/
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