Re: Alright, I give up. What does the "i" in "inode" stand for?

> It became a buzzword soon, it was used all over. Then came up the 
> technicians. Remembering the german word "furchtbar" (meaning "terrible", 
> actually) they introduced the term fubar, fucked up beyond all repair. It 
> later transformed to the well-known foobar. Actually, think of foobar as a 
> foo with a bar over it - foo inverted.
> 
> Later it was used in its current meaning by e.g. dec in their decsys 
> manuals, go read it if you like, I don't have them handy.

DEC also used fubar to refer to the Failed UniBus Access Register on a VAX, but I think that was either a backronym, or thought up by somebody who wasn't already aware of the other meaning.