mbb@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (martin.b.brilliant) (09/29/89)
From article <1620@tellab5.tellabs.CHI.IL.US>, by toth@tellab5.tellabs.CHI.IL.US (Joseph G. Toth Jr.):
> By the way, what does UNIX stand for?? (setting up for a barage of bad jokes?)
UNIX was named after MULTICS. UNIX is a registered trademark of AT&T.
It is not and never was an acronym.
M. B. Brilliant Marty
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explicitly claims them; then I lose all rights to them.rodney@sun.ipl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck II) (10/01/89)
In article <4350@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> mbb@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (martin.b.brilliant) writes: m> From article <1620@tellab5.tellabs.CHI.IL.US>, m> by toth@tellab5.tellabs.CHI.IL.US (Joseph G. Toth Jr.): > By the way, what does UNIX stand for?? (setting up for a barage of bad > jokes?) m> UNIX was named after MULTICS. UNIX is a registered trademark of AT&T. m> It is not and never was an acronym. But Multics is an acronym. Anyone know what it stands for? PS: One of the last Multics machines just went away. radc-multics is now officially offline. sigh. -- Rodney
merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) (10/03/89)
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? Well, since it was so "indirect-happy", I believe the official unofficial expansion was quoted as: Many Unbelievably Large Tables In Core Simultaneously Just another UNIX hacker (is that redundant? :-), -- /== Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 ====\ | on contract to Intel's iWarp project, Hillsboro, Oregon, USA, Sol III | | merlyn@iwarp.intel.com ...!uunet!iwarp.intel.com!merlyn | \== Cute Quote: "Welcome to Oregon... Home of the California Raisins!" ==/