[comp.unix.questions] MULTICS

tj@mks.UUCP (11/21/87)

In article <1942@frog.UUCP>, john@frog.UUCP (John Woods, Software) writes:
> most obvious blunder:  UNIX is not ``MULTICS ("Multiple Users Losing Totally
> In Cruddy Software") unified'',  but rather

Please get this right.
MULTICS really stands for:
	Many Unnecessarily Large Tables In Core Simultaneously

(You can't do that! It's against the lore!)

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