Just realized an odd coincidence from a 13-year-old open source contribution.
I contributed the "ping" command to the WINE command prompt to make it simply sleep (DOS didn't have sleep so batch files often used ping to sleep).
This OSS contribution was part of a homework assignment.
I just realized today that my professor for that class (Dr. Paul Eggert) was one of the two authors of the GNU/Linux sleep utility (along with many other utilities he helped write). 🤯
#OpenSource
Trey Hunner 🐍
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