From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 27 09:39:15 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA26081 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 27 May 1995 09:39:15 -0700 Received: from locust.cic.net (pauls@locust.cic.net [192.131.22.8]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA26075 for ; Sat, 27 May 1995 09:39:13 -0700 Received: (from pauls@localhost) by locust.cic.net (8.6.10/8.6.10) id MAA10851; Sat, 27 May 1995 12:39:28 -0400 Date: Sat, 27 May 1995 12:39:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Paul Southworth To: Peter da Silva cc: Brian Tao , terry@cs.weber.edu, smcarey@mailbox.syr.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ddd-1.2 binary now available In-Reply-To: <199505271313.IAA29107@bonkers.taronga.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 27 May 1995, Peter da Silva wrote: > > Maybe ddt would be a better name (if that isn't already taken either). > > DDT was a common name for debuggers in the late '70s and early '80s. I don't > know if there was a DDT for UNIX... the one I used was on CP/M. Yes, which makes it an excellent name for a debugger on a modern Unix machine. DDT was better than any game on the Kaypro II. One of those things that makes you just want to spend hours ripping things apart. Like a crowbar and a can of spray paint. ;)