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From: "Ken Yap" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Sydney Linux Users Group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] The origins of vmlinuz and mgetty
> |i came to think that peraps m stands for MIT, or alt. someones name
> |like Michael etc.
>
> Not MIT, the author was a German, Gert Doering. His name, possibly, but
> it would have to be a middle initial or his mother's name or maybe even
> his site muc.de. People do name things that could possibly be a
> references to themselves, kind of a sly attempt at immortality. The
> French discover of gallium said that he named it after France (Gaul),
> but his name was LeCoq (Gallus) so it's suspected he wanted to sneak his
> name into the periodic table.
Why are we still arguing over this? the m stands for Modem, just like how
the v in vgetty stands for voice (vgetty is from the mgetty package).
mgetty is a modem specific getty. 'nuff said.
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