Messages in this thread | | | From | jbradford@dial ... | Subject | Re: Alright, I give up. What does the "i" in "inode" stand for? | Date | Fri, 26 Jul 2002 09:24:51 +0100 (BST) |
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> It became a buzzword soon, it was used all over. Then came up the > technicians. Remembering the german word "furchtbar" (meaning "terrible", > actually) they introduced the term fubar, fucked up beyond all repair. It > later transformed to the well-known foobar. Actually, think of foobar as a > foo with a bar over it - foo inverted. > > Later it was used in its current meaning by e.g. dec in their decsys > manuals, go read it if you like, I don't have them handy.
DEC also used fubar to refer to the Failed UniBus Access Register on a VAX, but I think that was either a backronym, or thought up by somebody who wasn't already aware of the other meaning. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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