> Bullshit.   If you're going to rail against something at least get
> the history correct.
> 
> System III Unix in 1982 had neither
> memcpy came with System V in about 1983
> bcopy came with 4.2 bsd in about 1983
> 
> If you grew up with BSD then bcopy was your friend.  If you grew
> up with System V then memcpy was your friend.
> 
> It is as simple as that.   Whichever one you learned first tend to
> be the "natural" order, with the other somehow unnatural.  Until
> SVR4 and 4.4 BSD there wasn't much choice... you used the one that
> came with your release.

FWIW, the original UNIX had bcopy.

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