23 Dec
2015
23 Dec
'15
7:47 a.m.
On Tue, 22 Dec 2015, Doug McIlroy wrote:
"cron comes from the prefix (greek?) for time. it
should have been
chron, but i never could spell."
Yep, from the Greek god of time, Chronos.
I edited Wikipedia to expunge the nonsense. Amusingly
that makes the
article less "verifiable" because there had been literature citations
for the nonsense, but there is none for the fact.
Does anyone actually believe Wikipedia these days? Any fool can update
it, and they do...
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."