[news.newusers.questions] Multics etymology

clj@ksr.com (Chris Jones) (10/04/89)

In article <RODNEY.89Sep30150014@sun.ipl.rpi.edu>, rodney@sun (Rodney Peck II) writes:
> But Multics is an acronym.  Anyone know what it stands for?
>
MULTiplexed Information and Computing Service

(Note, Service, not System.  Multics was designed to be a "computer utility"
(the electric company was the model)).