program name joff

[John Gilmore]

mot!fred says:
> internet!Bill's follow-on to Doug Gwyn @ BRL's TOC of the BSTJ special
> on Unix mentioned that the Teletype 5620 (aka Blit) was once called the
> Jerq, from whence one should be able to deduce the meaning of the program
> name joff.  since i haven't seen any out-and-out statement on the meaning
> here's my submission (haven't had a chance to see the journal, so i didn't
> cheat).
> 
> Tom Cargill is a Univ of Waterloo grad.  I seem to recall a program on
> watbun called boff, meaning B Obscure Feature Finder.  I suspect that
> joff is the equivalent for the Jerq.

I think he's gotten to the meat of the topic and has things well in hand.