Re: Origin of the 'E' in SAGE.

[Elizabeth Zwicky <zwicky@pterodactyl.csd.sgi.com>]

I agree with Arnold's version of the story (he was there too, so it's
good that we agree). We came up with SAGE as an attractive acronym,
spent an *amazing* amount of time trying to come up with something to
do with the E, and figured we'd deal with it later. Our official
rationalizations have to do with the many missing Es in UNIX; I think
Paul is right that I started with resolv.conf, I don't know who
suggested creat(). I use them both, sometimes in alternation, sometimes
simultaneously. 

Let this be a lesson to you. There is no such thing as a temporary name.
And don't get clever trying to avoid the problem either; as $groupname,
the system administrator's group for New Jersey found out, there's just
no such thing as a temporary name. Tom was *sure* they couldn't just keep
what was obviously a variable name. He was outvoted. 

	Elizabeth Zwicky
	zwicky@sgi.com