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Sat Oct 31 17:21:37 1981
Re: UNIX trivia question?
In-Reply-To: Your message of 29-Oct-81 2156-EST
Via:  Ucb-C70.ArpaNet; 31 Oct 81 6:36-PDT

I had always assumed that "rc" came from "runcom", which I think is a
PDP-10ism, although I don't remember where I first encountered it.
In turn, I had assumed that "runcom" was "run command file".
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