Aucbarpa.1143
net.followup
utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!G:ARPAVAX:olson
Thu Apr 15 15:06:41 1982
Re: more etymology
i always thought it was "Delete from SWitches," from back in the days
when the inode of the file to be deleted had to be toggled in on the
console switches...  i could be wrong, i guess.  who cares?
                                       mikey
                                       (mikey olson, ucbvax!olson)

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