From: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netmeister.org>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Origin of Charlie Root
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 19:06:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200923230646.GA20235@netmeister.org> (raw)
Hello,
Perhaps this has been discussed here before, but I
couldn't find a definitive answer as to the origin of
"Charlie Root".
https://www.geeklan.co.uk/?p=2457 includes links to
some of the /etc/passwd files from 4.1cBSD, 4.2BSD,
and 2.9BSD, where we see root changing from being "The
Man" to "Charlie &".
Speculations on the internet about Charlie Root the
baseball player are easy enough to find, but no
confirmation or official origin story.
So I thought I'd ask here: who can (authoritatively)
shed light on how we ended up with Charlie Root?
-Jan
next reply other threads:[~2020-09-23 23:13 UTC|newest]
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2020-09-23 23:06 Jan Schaumann [this message]
2020-09-24 0:10 ` John Cowan
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