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I often thought that a cat could be named /bin/cat. After all, many cats seem to enjoy being in boxes or bins!

You're likely aware of this, and certainly Don is, but for those unaware, PIP was the RSX-11 and CP/M equivalent to /bin/cat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral_Interchange_Program

I'm going to name my next cat after my favorite Apple ][ DOS command:

]CATALOG

And my next dog after the way you warm restart DOS after you hit RESET with Integer Basic ROMs and get thrown into Woz's system monitor:

*3D0G

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_DOS#Technical_details

Awesome. I wasn't sure if anyone else remembered those. Formative stuff for me :-)

Probably most of the people who used them a lot at the time would be 55–70-year-old men in the US today. https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html suggests that 88% of US men who would be 55 if they were still alive are in fact still alive, and 72% of US men who would be 70 today if they were still alive are in fact still alive.

So probably three-quarters of the people who remembered them in, say, 01990, still remember them. You remember all those guys, and the occasional gal, you saw at computer stores and user group meetings at the time? Most of them are still alive, and most of them still remember them. They're just harder to find because places like HN have filled up with MBAs.

(I remember ]CATALOG but not *3D0G.)

But when you talk editor names, you should really rather name it "Ed".

Ed is the standard Unix text editor.

And his brothers /bin/bzcat, /bin/pacat, /bin/netcat and /bin/sqfscat.

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