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WalterBright
on Sept 22, 2018
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Back at Caltech in the 70s, user accounts on the DECSystem 10 had 3 characters, and was set as the student's initials. One fellow had no middle name, so he used 'x'.
He got so used to it he legally changed his name so his middle name was 'X'.
kgwgk
on Sept 22, 2018
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_X._Cohen
is actually David S. Cohen but the name was already taken.
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He got so used to it he legally changed his name so his middle name was 'X'.