FRED

Jon Hall maddog at li.org
Wed Oct 9 19:53:44 EDT 2002


Hi,

For many years I tried to get people at Digital Equipment Corporation, and later
Compaq, to name a project "FRED".

Why FRED?  For two simple reasons:

	o We were always late in naming a project, sometimes to the point of
	  delaying shipment because the name was not chosen early enough

	o Fred Canter was a master software engineer, and I wanted to name
	  a product after him



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