From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dugo@xs4all.nl (Jacob Goense) Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2016 05:30:25 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] etymology of cron In-Reply-To: <9D03F404-CABC-4309-97CD-3BF2828B43F6@ronnatalie.com> References: <20151225222234.GP14449@eureka.lemis.com> <20160102222224.GA14449@eureka.lemis.com> <9D03F404-CABC-4309-97CD-3BF2828B43F6@ronnatalie.com> Message-ID: <45f7e64be92340b676f2679ff998c0e8@xs4all.nl> On 2016-01-02 20:26, Ronald Natalie wrote: > Well, Mike thinks. UNIX needs a ping program as well so we can test > things. He banged it out in about an hour. Mike joked years > later about PING being an acronym for packet inter network groper but > he was NEVER serious about it. Well, the source code for the fuzzball version of PING[1a] calls it "P i n g - packet inter net groper". The fuzzball manual[1b] calls it: The Packet InterNet Groper (PING) is an internet measurement and debugging tool. Mills's 1983 RFC889[2] calls the original PING Packet InterNet Groper. There is his claim[3] he invented it in 1979. Where it seems Muus preferred to keep the sonar analogy pure for ping(8) Mills liked to play with words all the time. [1a] http://web.archive.org/web/20131020063249/http://malarky.udel.edu/~dmills/data/du0/PING.MAC [1b] http://web.archive.org/web/20141108042310/http://malarky.udel.edu/~dmills/data/du0/HELP.TXT [2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc889 [3] http://www-mice.cs.ucl.ac.uk/multimedia/misc/tcp_ip/8702.mm.www/0342.html