ThurmUnit Becomes GDT -- Why GDT?

When I started my first computing job during June of 1979, I was given an account on a Unix system and my LOGNAME was gdt. I got lucky.

These days LOGNAME is also referred to as user name, account name, login identifier (id) and so on. For a long time in the Unix world initials were used as LOGNAMEs. I re-named ThurmUnit to GDT as a demonstration of pride and honor for being a computer professional since the summer of 1979.

Author: Gerald D.Thurman [gdt@deru.com]
Created: 23 Aug 2002