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From: dlw@odi.com (Dan Weinreb)
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Subject: Re: Jargon file v2.1.5 28 NOV 1990 -- part 5 of 6
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Date: 13 Dec 90 21:42:34 GMT
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In-Reply-To: rembo@unisoft.UUCP's message of 12 Dec 90 21:20:27 GMT

In article <3268@unisoft.UUCP> rembo@unisoft.UUCP (Tony Rems) writes:

   From page 3 of 
   "The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System"

   "Even the name "UNIX" is merely a pun on Multics; in areas where 
   Multics attempted to do many things, UNIX tried to do one thing well."

Well, Multics isn't called that because it does "many things".  The
"Multi" part is from the word "multiplexed", meaning that it is
time-sharing system.  As is Unix, of course.  I wonder what is the
one thing that Unix tried to do well.