Origin of 'awk'

[David Collier-Brown]

In article <2111 at ukecc.engr.uky.edu> wes at engr.uky.edu (Wes Morgan) writes:
>@AWK!!!@
  Once upon a time I received the following message:

awk: squawk! THUD...

  On my current machine, strings doesn't find it in awk, so
presumably it wasn't in all versions.  In those it was, the message
seemed to indicate an interrupted system call...
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