From: jbradford@dial.pipex.com
To: thunder@ngforever.de (Thunder from the hill)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Alright, I give up. What does the "i" in "inode" stand for?
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 09:24:51 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200207260824.g6Q8OqxV000989@darkstar.example.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0207242348380.3347-100000@hawkeye.luckynet.adm> from "Thunder from the hill" at Jul 25, 2002 12:03:47 AM
> It became a buzzword soon, it was used all over. Then came up the
> technicians. Remembering the german word "furchtbar" (meaning "terrible",
> actually) they introduced the term fubar, fucked up beyond all repair. It
> later transformed to the well-known foobar. Actually, think of foobar as a
> foo with a bar over it - foo inverted.
>
> Later it was used in its current meaning by e.g. dec in their decsys
> manuals, go read it if you like, I don't have them handy.
DEC also used fubar to refer to the Failed UniBus Access Register on a VAX, but I think that was either a backronym, or thought up by somebody who wasn't already aware of the other meaning.
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Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-18 22:33 Rob Landley
2002-07-19 4:38 ` Kelledin
2002-07-19 4:38 ` Larry McVoy
2002-07-19 4:45 ` CaT
2002-07-18 23:34 ` Rob Landley
2002-07-19 5:40 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-07-19 0:21 ` Rob Landley
2002-07-19 12:38 ` Kelledin
2002-07-19 13:09 ` Ryan Cumming
2002-07-19 7:00 ` dalecki
2002-07-19 19:58 ` Måns Rullgård
2002-07-19 20:17 ` Cort Dougan
2002-07-20 1:06 ` Kelsey Hudson
2002-07-26 14:15 ` [OT] Why Stallman says GNU/Linux (was Re: Alright, I give up. What does the "i" in "inode" stand for?) Rob Landley
2002-07-19 14:20 ` Alright, I give up. What does the "i" in "inode" stand for? yodaiken
2002-07-20 14:22 ` Georg Nikodym
2002-07-20 14:31 ` yodaiken
2002-07-22 13:10 ` Jesse Pollard
2002-07-20 6:01 ` John Kacur
2002-07-19 4:52 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-07-22 22:23 ` Joe DiMartino
2002-07-22 22:49 ` Hiten Pandya
2002-07-25 0:24 ` Daniel Mose
2002-07-25 1:16 ` Andrew Rodland
2002-07-25 2:43 ` jw schultz
2002-07-25 3:18 ` Christian Lavoie
2002-07-25 5:30 ` Ross Vandegrift
2002-07-25 11:08 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-25 6:03 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-07-26 8:24 ` jbradford [this message]
2002-07-28 9:01 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-08-04 15:11 ` Gert Menke
2002-07-26 12:54 ` Rob Landley
2002-07-25 18:06 ` Kevin Buhr
2002-07-26 23:39 ` Daniel Mose
2002-07-19 5:08 Mohamed Ghouse , Gurgaon
2002-07-19 13:21 Nicholas Berry
2002-07-19 13:32 Jesse Pollard
2002-07-30 20:07 ` Mark H. Wood
[not found] <fa.m2aun2v.khulp2@ifi.uio.no>
2002-07-20 2:20 ` Kevin Buhr
2002-07-20 2:51 Kevin Puetz
2002-07-25 13:54 Jesse Pollard
2002-07-30 20:58 Jesse Pollard
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