Afloyd.79
net.misc
utzoo!decvax!duke!chico!harpo!floyd!trb
Fri Feb 12 10:13:08 1982
UNIX name
UNIX is NOT an acronym.  It is sort of a play on MULTICS, MULtipurpose
TImesharing Computer System, or something, a creature that runs on
Honeywell machines.  UNIX does draw some of its discreet charm from
MULTICS.  I think that UNIX was sort of a singular mini version of
whatever it was that MULTICS was a multiple maxi version of.  A
personal version, originally a fun toy.

As long as we are on the subject of obscure nomenclature, there is a
rarely seen version of UNIX called NUXI that seems to pop up now and
then on new processors, shortly before they start running UNIX...
	Andy Tannenbaum   Bell Labs  Whippany, NJ   (201) 386-6491