From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: rochkind@basepath.com (Marc Rochkind) Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 13:46:17 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] etymology of cron In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: that 2nd ref is mine, too. marc On Friday, December 25, 2015, David wrote: > It has been updated again: > > The origin of the name cron is from the Greek word for time, χρόνος > (chronos).[2][3] (Ken Thompson, author of cron, has confirmed this in a > private communication with Brian Kernighan.) > > So it would appear that if enough people bang on enough keyboards on the > Wikipedia site, things can change. > > David > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: