Every computer geek knows his/her cat is the Computer Purry Furr-all ... don't say you weren't warned! :)

Wesley Parish

Before I got hooked on UNIX in 1977, I used a Univac Exec8 system.

You “cataloged” (created) a file with the @CAT command.

Other, file operations were done by the File Utility Routine/Program Utility Routine:  FURPUR

(sort of like pip on steroids).   

I decided that if I ever got a CAT, it would be named FURPUR.   That happened when I was working for Rutgers.   Not having any UNIVACs around, the name escaped notice until the EE department hired a guy from the University of Maryland who says “You have a cat named FURPUR?”