Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 15:47:31 +0100 From: Ashley Moran <work@ashleymoran.me.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: one answer Message-ID: <43259503.1010306@ashleymoran.me.uk> In-Reply-To: <54db439905091207171e04dd1c@mail.gmail.com> References: <43241982.7080108@acm.org> <43241CA3.7040706@acm.org> <54db439905091207171e04dd1c@mail.gmail.com>
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Bob Johnson wrote: > On 9/11/05, legalois <legalois@acm.org> wrote: >>According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Root) >>The name of a famous American baseball player (1899-1970) "...gives rise >>to the name used for many "root" system accounts under the UNIX >>operating system." >>But that does not explain when, how or why? > > > When you find out, please update the Wikipedia entry! You ought to be > able to track down who made that edit in Wikipedia, and ask them for > more details. > Just as a wild guess... if you write Charlie's name with his initals you get CHRoot. Could that be it? Ashley
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