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SoftTalkeryesterday at 4:11 PM1 replyview on HN

There was also the record You Can Tune a Piano, but You Can't Tuna Fish by REO Speedwagon, I had assumed that's what the tunefs man page was referencing as that was a best-selling record at around the time Unix was being developed.


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throwanemyesterday at 4:15 PM

Yes. It had been a popular joke in the US, I believe about a generation before. (Probably the joke came in around the same time as canned tuna.)