From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 16:00:29 +1000 (EST)
Subject: [TUHS] Etymology of bc(1)
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On Thu, 11 Sep 2014, Noel Chiappa wrote:

> Dude! Trying to answer questions about the origins of BC by looking at 
> systems this late is like trying to learn Latin by studying Italian! :-)

Perhaps so, but I was a bit surprised that FreeBSD (and I include the Mac
in that) totally rewrote it from a Posix draft, and dropped the pipe.

I no longer have my old manuals (they disappeared during a house move).

-- Dave