Awhuxlb.212 net.general utzoo!decvax!harpo!zeppo!whuxlb!ech Thu Apr 15 17:50:15 1982 re: dsw etymology Actually, the origin of DSW is 'Delete with SWitches'...harks back to the (early) days when unix was a multics-inspired one-user system. =Ned Horvath= ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.