Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 04:22:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 04:22:35 -0400 Received: from 62-190-203-159.pdu.pipex.net ([62.190.203.159]:21764 "EHLO darkstar.example.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 04:22:34 -0400 From: jbradford@dial.pipex.com Message-Id: <200207260824.g6Q8OqxV000989@darkstar.example.net> Subject: Re: Alright, I give up. What does the "i" in "inode" stand for? To: thunder@ngforever.de (Thunder from the hill) Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 09:24:51 +0100 (BST) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: from "Thunder from the hill" at Jul 25, 2002 12:03:47 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 912 Lines: 15 > It became a buzzword soon, it was used all over. Then came up the > technicians. Remembering the german word "furchtbar" (meaning "terrible", > actually) they introduced the term fubar, fucked up beyond all repair. It > later transformed to the well-known foobar. Actually, think of foobar as a > foo with a bar over it - foo inverted. > > Later it was used in its current meaning by e.g. dec in their decsys > manuals, go read it if you like, I don't have them handy. DEC also used fubar to refer to the Failed UniBus Access Register on a VAX, but I think that was either a backronym, or thought up by somebody who wasn't already aware of the other meaning. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/