> 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.
