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;login:is a long-running technical journal published by theUSENIXAssociation, focusing on theUNIX operating systemandsystem administrationin general. It was founded by Mel Ferentz in 1975 asUNIX News,changing its name to;login:in 1977.^[1]Currently, issues from 1997 through the present are available online directly from USENIX, whereas issues between 1983 and 2000 have been archived in theInternet Archivesince 2018.^[2]

The leadingsemicolonis a reference to the appearance of theloginprompt of early versions of UNIX, where anescape codespecific to theTeletypemodel 37computer terminalwould appear as a semicolon on other models of terminal.^[3]

References

^Salus, Peter H.(1994).A Quarter Century of UNIX.Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. p. 68.ISBN 9780201547771.
^Rik Farrow (Winter 2018)."Musings"(PDF).login(Editorial). Vol. 43, no. 4.USENIX.p. 4.ISSN 1044-6397.
^"Why is there a"; "in;login:?".USENIX.2005-05-31.Retrieved2021-01-25.

External links

;login: - TheUSENIXMagazine— issues since 1998
archive.org/details/usenix-login— archive of issues between 1983 and 2000

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[1] Salus, Peter H.(1994).A Quarter Century of UNIX.Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. p. 68.ISBN 9780201547771.

[RickFarrow-2] Rik Farrow (Winter 2018)."Musings"(PDF).login(Editorial). Vol. 43, no. 4.USENIX.p. 4.ISSN 1044-6397.

[3] "Why is there a"; "in;login:?".USENIX.2005-05-31.Retrieved2021-01-25.

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