re: "Oregano" and Unix wizards - TUHS

29 Mar 1990

The significance of its appearance is unknown to me.
Perhaps it is a Berkeley addition?
    Dennis
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rgb(0, 249, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=3D""><span =
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you =
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"Unix</span></div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; =
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background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=3D""><span =
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posters at recent Usenix conferences.&nbsp; The poster shows =
a</span></div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height:
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background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=3D""><span =
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that looks kinda like you mixing various Unix tools together =
to</span></div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; font-size: 14px;
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background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=3D""><span =
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class=3D"">make a =
potion of some sort.&nbsp; The only thing that isn't obviously =
some</span></div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; =
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background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=3D""><span =
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class=3D"">sort of =
pun on an aspect of Unix is a canister labeled Oregano in =
the</span></div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; font-size: 14px;
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background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=3D""><span =
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class=3D"">foreground of the picture.</span></div><div
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class=3D"">Is there some significance behind this, other than the =
obvious</span></div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; =
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background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=3D""><span =
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class=3D"">"oregano"=
 double meaning?&nbsp; Did you guys really use "oregano" to =
help</span></div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; =
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background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=3D""><span =
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your creativity for the original Unix development?</span></div><div =
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