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* [9fans] B name origin?
@ 2022-12-12 12:42 fgergo
  2022-12-12 19:57 ` Rob Pike
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From: fgergo @ 2022-12-12 12:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

Does anybody know where the name B (b/B in sam) comes from?
thanks,
Gergely Födémesi

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* Re: [9fans] B name origin?
  2022-12-12 12:42 [9fans] B name origin? fgergo
@ 2022-12-12 19:57 ` Rob Pike
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From: Rob Pike @ 2022-12-12 19:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Buffer, a word in editor context that came from QED but may have had
earlier roots.

-rob


On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 11:44 PM <fgergo@gmail.com> wrote:

> Does anybody know where the name B (b/B in sam) comes from?
> thanks,
> Gergely Födémesi

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