From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!allegra!sbcs!debray
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: Re: What does UNIX stand for?
Article-I.D.: sbcs.280
Posted: Sun Apr 17 17:21:28 1983
Received: Wed Apr 20 23:05:28 1983

Considering that UNIX(*) was influenced by Multics, but tried expressly
to avoid some features of Multics that its designers felt were undesirable,
I'd venture a guess as to the relation between their names : UNIX designers
felt that Multics was too big and complicated, hence UNI_X, as distinct
from Multi_cs? ( uni- vs. multi- ?)

Saumya K Debray
SUNY at Stony Brook
... allegra!sbcs!debray

(*) UNIX is a Bell Labs TM