[ih] What is the origin of the root account?

Miles Fidelman mfidelman at meetinghouse.net
Sat Apr 13 17:15:15 PDT 2013


Dave Crocker wrote:
>
> On 4/13/2013 12:01 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
>> My
>> PDP11/45 processor handbook is (C)1973. Of course, at that time, DEC
>> couldn't even spell u-n-i-x.
>
>
> Let's be fair:  That early, almost no one outside the Labs could (and
> I suspect precious could, even within the Labs...)
>

which does bring this to mind:
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1993-11-09/

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