Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!overload!dillon From: dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga Subject: Re: UNIX Message-ID: Date: 1 Jun 91 01:13:28 GMT Article-I.D.: overload.dillon.8231 References: <7781@ecs.soton.ac.uk> <1991May24.181753.21958@convex.com> Organization: Not an Organization Lines: 31 In article greg@pfloyd.lonestar.org (Greg Harp) writes: >In article dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes: >>In article <1991May24.181753.21958@convex.com> swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren) writes: >>> >>>But is the world ready for Dnix? ;^) >> >> I was thinking 'dux' :-) > >Ask Dan Wallach for an idea, Matt. ;-) > >Or how about D/UX? :) (putting on asbestos underwear...) Don't like D/UX, it sounds too much like A/UX (the yucky apple unix). DUX is good not only because it starts with a D and ends in UX, but also because it starts with a D and sounds like DUCK (as in a plural Dale). :-) -Matt >-- >greg@pfloyd.lonestar.org----greg@pfloyd.UUCP----convex!egsner!pfloyd!greg >copy protection: n. A class of clever methods for preventing incompetent > pirates from stealing software and legitimate customers from using it. > Considered silly. -- Matthew Dillon dillon@Overload.Berkeley.CA.US 891 Regal Rd. uunet.uu.net!overload!dillon Berkeley, Ca. 94708 USA