[zoltar]

Linus was hanging out in the monotone list for a bit and was a little frustrated with the performance at the time. https://lwn.net/Articles/132161/

[agumonkey]

interesting bit of history

also reread about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogito_(software)

it's funny how like a few other projects, the original high level interface (cogito) got canned and the low level one ended up the main. I've read this about apt (which was a sub project of a big debian graphical package management) and lisp too.