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Origins of "respawn"

Origins of "respawn"

Posted Aug 11, 2009 14:13 UTC (Tue) by bkw1a (guest, #4101)
Parent article: You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again (Wired)

"...which is called ‘re-spawning’ in homage to video games where zombies come back to life even after being 'killed,'..."

I think inittab predates zombie-based video games:

1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1

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Origins of "respawn"

Posted Aug 12, 2009 7:58 UTC (Wed) by Los__D (guest, #15263) [Link]

I would think that what the one that coined the term thought about, matters a whole more than the origin of the word in computing.


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