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From: goldfarb@hcx9.UCF.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: The Names of the Beast (contd)
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Date: 31 Aug 89 00:45:00 GMT
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Nf-From: hcx9.UCF.EDU!goldfarb    Aug 30 20:45:00 1989


I guess I need to perpetuate this lunacy just for the hell of it.  I'd heard
about a small group of German computer scientists who were working on a Unix
rewrite that would run on parallel and distributed architectures.  Since they
didn't want it confused with Mach and they didn't care much what it was called
they called it

				Machts-nix

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