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Fri Feb 12 10:36:46 1982
Etomology of UNIX
According to *The Evolution of the UNIX System* by
Ritchie, et.al. in Software Practice and Experience
issue no. and date unknown.  UNIX is an outgrowth
of BTL involvement with the MULTICS project of the
60's.  The name is *a treacherous pun on MULTICS*
which required some thought to figure out. (Thanks
to some of the pioneers of MULTICS and other early
computer types -- they taught me how the programmers
and such ilk of that era think) The answer (the pun
used) is that UNIX is MULTICS without balls. To make
it *painfully* obvious UNIX = eunuchs!
			Greg Woodbury