From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: scj@yaccman.com (scj@yaccman.com)
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 16:34:20 -0700
Subject: [TUHS] Etymology of bc(1)
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Well, Doug McIlroy would probably know definitively, but my memory is that
it was called "bc" because it was written by Bob Morris (senior)--thus,
Bob's calculator.

Steve