sob@harvisr.harvard.edu (Scott Bradner) (07/23/88)
In working up a talk about unix to be given to the IBM "share" user's group ( Flames to /dev/null ) I thought it might be interesting to include a list of the various ways that vendors ( & others ) spell unix. I've got: UNIX (tm) ultrix venix xenix A/UX AIX HP/UX (?) I know that there are many more, can I be enlightened by the semi-assembled masses? Thanks Scott Bradner Harvard University
mark@aoa.UUCP (Mark Reynolds) (07/25/88)
In article <5007@husc6.harvard.edu> sob@harvisr.UUCP (Scott Bradner) writes: >In working up a talk about unix to be given to the IBM "share" user's >group ( Flames to /dev/null ) I thought it might be interesting to >include a list of the various ways that vendors ( & others ) spell unix. > >I've got: > UNIX (tm) > .... dynix Mark Reynolds ...!BBN.COM!bbn!aoa!mark
greim@sbsvax.UUCP (Michael Greim) (07/26/88)
In article <5007@husc6.harvard.edu> sob@harvisr.UUCP (Scott Bradner) writes: >In working up a talk about unix to be given to the IBM "share" user's >group ( Flames to /dev/null ) I thought it might be interesting to >include a list of the various ways that vendors ( & others ) spell unix. > >I've got: > UNIX (tm) > .... SINIX, by SIEMENS AG. It runs on nsc32016 based PC's. It's derived from some SYS3 system. -mg -- +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | UUCP: ...!uunet!unido!sbsvax!greim | Michael T. Greim | | or greim@sbsvax.UUCP | Universitaet des Saarlandes | | CSNET: greim%sbsvax.uucp@Germany.CSnet| FB 10 - Informatik (Dept. of CS) | | ARPA: greim%sbsvax.uucp@uunet.UU.NET | Bau 36, Im Stadtwald 15 | | Phone: +49 681 302 2434 | D-6600 Saarbruecken 11, West Germany | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | # include <disclaimers/std.h> | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
torsten@pcsbst.UUCP (Torsten Homeyer) (07/26/88)
In article <5007@husc6.harvard.edu> sob@harvisr.UUCP (Scott Bradner) writes:
<In working up a talk about unix to be given to the IBM "share" user's
<group ( Flames to /dev/null ) I thought it might be interesting to
<include a list of the various ways that vendors ( & others ) spell unix.
<
<I've got:
< UNIX (tm)
< ultrix
< venix
< xenix
< A/UX
< AIX
< HP/UX (?)
<
What about:
MUNIX (from PCS in Munich)
SINIX (from Siemens)
Torsten.kluft@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Ian Kluft) (07/27/88)
sob@harvisr.harvard.edu (Scott Bradner) writes: > In working up a talk about unix to be given to the IBM "share" user's > group ( Flames to /dev/null ) I thought it might be interesting to > include a list of the various ways that vendors ( & others ) spell unix. > > I've got: > UNIX (tm) [ ... ] > HP/UX (?) Actually, it's spelled HP-UX. :-) Only since we're talking about spelling. here are some others for your list: Xinu (stands for "Xinu is no Unix") Minix BSD ------------------------------------------------------------------ Ian Kluft RAS Lab UUCP: hplabs!hprasor!kluft HP Systems Technology Division ARPA: kluft@hpda.hp.com Cupertino, CA ------------------------------------------------------------------
rwhite@nusdhub.UUCP (Robert C. White Jr.) (07/28/88)
in article <5007@husc6.harvard.edu>, sob@harvisr.harvard.edu (Scott Bradner) says: > I know that there are many more, can I be enlightened by the semi-assembled > masses? According to information handed out at U3G at the beginning of this year; AT&T states spesificly that there is *only* one way to refer to the UNIX System products, and that is: "UNIX(TM) System" followed by whatever designation of type or product you are spesifically refering. AT&T is presently persuing persons or companies which violate this, in an effort ro retain their trade mark. They spesifically state that it is never correct to use "UNIX (e.g. alone w/no "(tm)"); Unix (ever); or unix (ever)." Just thought you'd like to know what AT&T told us. Rob.
kai@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu (07/28/88)
How about: Dynix - Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. Concentrix - Alliant Computer Corp. David Nelson Kuck and Associates, Inc. Internet: dnelson@kai.com UUCP: ...!uunet!uiucuxc!kailand!dnelson The opinions expressed here are my own, NOT my employers.
squires@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Matt Squires) (07/28/88)
/ hpcvlx:comp.unix.wizards /
kluft@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Ian Kluft)
/ 12:58 pm Jul 26, 1988 /
> Xinu (stands for "Xinu is no Unix")
Are you sure? The story I heard was that the official name of Xinu is
"Mt Xinu", which is really "Unix tm", backwards.
mcsray@alice.UUCP (07/29/88)
In article <5007@husc6.harvard.edu> sob@harvisr.UUCP (Scott Bradner) writes: | ... I thought it might be interesting to |include a list of the various ways that vendors ( & others ) spell unix. ^^^^^^^^^ | |I've got: | UNIX (tm) | : | etc. Add: SIRONIX Distributed by SIROMATH Pty (Australia) internally?, perhaps for CSIRO systems. Based on 4.2 BSD for VAX with local tailoring. (Correction requested :-)) Ray
vixie@palo-alto.DEC.COM (Paul Vixie) (07/29/88)
In article <5960007@hpcupt1.HP.COM> kluft@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Ian Kluft) writes:
#
# > HP/UX (?)
#
# Actually, it's spelled HP-UX. :-) Only since we're talking about spelling.
Aren't we sorry, now, that they didn't call themselves Packard-Hewlett?
(Think about it.)
(Thanks, Dave.)
:-).
--
Paul Vixie
Digital Equipment Corporation Work: vixie@dec.com Play: paul@vixie.UUCP
Western Research Laboratory uunet!decwrl!vixie uunet!vixie!paul
Palo Alto, California, USA +1 415 853 6600 +1 415 864 7013apm@oasis.icl.stc.co.uk (Andrew Merritt x2109) (07/29/88)
In article <5007@husc6.harvard.edu> sob@harvisr.UUCP (Scott Bradner) writes: >In working up a talk about unix to be given to the IBM "share" user's >group ( Flames to /dev/null ) I thought it might be interesting to >include a list of the various ways that vendors ( & others ) spell unix. > >I've got: > UNIX (tm) > .... DRS/NX from ICL. Runs on DRS range of hardware. System V based port. signed: Andrew Merritt (763) 2109 local: apm global: apm@iclbra.uucp apm@icl.stc.co.uk MSDOS: Just say NO. ...!uunet!mcvax!ukc!stc!iclbra!apm -- signed: Andrew Merritt (763) 2109 local: apm global: apm@iclbra.uucp apm@icl.stc.co.uk MSDOS: Just say NO. ...!uunet!mcvax!ukc!stc!iclbra!apm
caag@inf.rl.ac.uk (Crispin Goswell) (07/30/88)
In article <5007@husc6.harvard.edu> sob@harvisr.UUCP (Scott Bradner) writes: > UNIX (tm) > ultrix > venix > xenix > A/UX > AIX > HP/UX (?) > >I know that there are many more, can I be enlightened by the semi-assembled OK. I can think of: Eunice Genix Minix PNX (I kid you not) UTS OSX SunOS OTS BSD Mach (well, sort of) System V U**X (the only one which is not a trademark of someone) This is all a conspiracy by AT&T to distract people's attention from improving on System V :-) -- Name: Crispin Goswell |-------|-\ Informatics Department Usenet:{... | mcvax}!ukc!rlvd!caag | Tea | | Rutherford Appleton Lab JANET: caag@uk.ac.rl.inf \ Mug /_/ Chilton, Didcot ARPA: caag%inf.rl.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk \_____/ Oxon OX11 0QX, UK
asw@inf.rl.ac.uk (Tony Williams) (07/30/88)
In article <3331@rlvd.UUCP> caag@inf.rl.ac.uk (Crispin Goswell) writes: >OK. I can think of: (omitted) > U**X (the only one which is not a trademark of someone) (omitted) and 42nix (Whitechapel MG-1) -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tony Williams |Informatics Division JANET: asw@uk.ac.rl.vd |Rutherford Appleton Lab Usenet: {... | mcvax}!ukc!rlvd!asw |Chilton, Didcot ARPA: asw%vd.rl.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk |Oxon OX11 0QX, UK
henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (07/30/88)
In article <5960007@hpcupt1.HP.COM> kluft@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Ian Kluft) writes: >Actually, it's spelled HP-UX. ... And as somebody asked at Usenix, "What would HP-UX be called if the company had been named Packard-Hewlett?". :-) -- MSDOS is not dead, it just | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology smells that way. | uunet!mnetor!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu
jfh@rpp386.UUCP (John F. Haugh II) (07/30/88)
In article <1570004@hpcvlx.HP.COM> squires@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Matt Squires) writes: >/ hpcvlx:comp.unix.wizards / >kluft@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Ian Kluft) >/ 12:58 pm Jul 26, 1988 / > >> Xinu (stands for "Xinu is no [sic] Unix") > >Are you sure? The story I heard was that the official name of Xinu is >"Mt Xinu", which is really "Unix tm", backwards. no doubt this is the honest-to-god truth as far as the person who invented it is concerned, but i suspect the lawyers prefer the "Xinu is not UNIX" version much better. the company i work for is "HECI Exploration Co.", we used to be "Humble Exploration Co. Inc" until Humble Oil sued us. someone in a fit of brilliance (we had one day to change our corporate name) crammed all the initials together and threw "Exploration Co." on the end. we are quite careful, however, to mention that HECI does not stand for ANYTHING. -- John F. Haugh II +--------- Cute Chocolate Quote --------- HASA, "S" Division | "USENET should not be confused with UUCP: killer!rpp386!jfh | something that matters, like CHOCOLATE" DOMAIN: jfh@rpp386.uucp | -- apologizes to Dennis O'Connor
werner@nikhefk.UUCP (Werner Vogels) (08/01/88)
I wonder why nobody mentions Ultrix ? My contribution to the list is PC/IX (Interactive Systems). Werner Vogels (..!mcvax!nikhefk!werner).
seindal@freja.dk (Rene' Seindal) (08/01/88)
>>> Xinu (stands for "Xinu is no [sic] Unix") >> >>Are you sure? The story I heard was that the official name of Xinu is >>"Mt Xinu", which is really "Unix tm", backwards. >no doubt this is the honest-to-god truth as far as the person who invented >it is concerned, but i suspect the lawyers prefer the "Xinu is not UNIX" >version much better. You shouldn't mix up Xinu (Douglas Comers baby OS for LSI-11's) with Mt. Xinu, which sells 4.3BSD with NFS. They are totally unrelated. Rene' Seindal, DIKU, U. of Copenhagen, Denmark. (seindal@diku.dk)
jeff@polyof.UUCP (A1 jeff giordano ) (08/02/88)
In article <346@aoa.UUCP>, mark@aoa.UUCP (Mark Reynolds) writes: > In article <5007@husc6.harvard.edu> sob@harvisr.UUCP (Scott Bradner) writes: > >In working up a talk about unix to be given to the IBM "share" user's > >group ( Flames to /dev/null ) I thought it might be interesting to > >include a list of the various ways that vendors ( & others ) spell unix. > > > >I've got: > > UNIX (tm) > > .... > > dynix minix xinu (? i think that is how it is spelled) stuff for the line counter. Geoffrey Giordano jeff@polyof.poly.edu ...iguana!polyof!jeff
kluft@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Ian Kluft) (08/02/88)
henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: > And as somebody asked at Usenix, "What would HP-UX be called if the company > had been named Packard-Hewlett?". :-) Are we ever lucky that the coin landed the way it did... :-) (That's the rumor around HP anyway. Dave Packard insists is was just alphabetical order.) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Ian Kluft RAS Lab UUCP: hplabs!hprasor!kluft HP Systems Technology Division ARPA: kluft@hpda.hp.com Cupertino, CA ------------------------------------------------------------------
sgf@ndc.UUCP (Fishman) (08/02/88)
> ... a list of the various ways that vendors ( & others ) spell unix. > < > < UNIX (tm) > < ultrix . . . > SINIX add DG/UX and MV/UX - native and hosted versions of unix from Data General (who?) -- Sharon Gates-Fishman amdahl!cit-vax!ndc!sgf
roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) (08/02/88)
Doesn't Kimberly-Clarke have a version called Kleenex? :-)
--
Roy Smith, System Administrator
Public Health Research Institute
{allegra,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers}!phri!roy -or- phri!roy@uunet.uu.net
"The connector is the network"peter@ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva) (08/03/88)
TNIX Tektronix 8560/61 Version 7 on LSI-11 -- Peter da Silva, Ferranti International Controls Corporation, sugar!ficc!peter. "You made a TIME MACHINE out of a VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE?" "Well, I couldn't afford another deLorean." "But how do you ever get it up to 88 miles per hour????"
sgf@ndc.UUCP (Fishman) (08/04/88)
On the consumer side, your local grocery store has Meuslix and Crispix. -- Sharon Gates-Fishman amdahl!cit-vax!ndc!sgf
merlyn@intelob (Randal L. Schwartz @ Stonehenge) (08/05/88)
In article <1200@ficc.UUCP>, peter@ficc (Peter da Silva) writes: | TNIX Tektronix 8560/61 Version 7 on LSI-11 Almost version 7. We also stole the mapping stuff from 2.8BSD to fit a bunch more stuff into the poor little address space of the 11. (We did it our own way, of course :-). I was wondering when someone was going to mention the result of my first experience as a programming team leader at Tek. (My first piece of published software was GUIDE, the menu system for the same machine. Anyone remember that?) The original name was TEKNIX, until someone pointed out that in German, that meant "Tek - Nothing". Eeeek. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 on contract to BiiN Technical Publications (for now :-), Hillsboro, Oregon <merlyn@intelob.intel.com> or ...!tektronix!ogcvax!omepd!intelob!merlyn Standard disclaimer: I *am* my employer!
anamaria@lll-lcc.llnl.gov (Ana Maria De Alvare) (08/13/88)
to add to your list: TUNIS, from CANADA Apollo propietary OS. Mt.XINU Ana Maria De Alvare'