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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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