From: utzoo!decvax!genrad!mit-eddi!gumby
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: Re: What does UNIX stand for?
Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.125
Posted: Wed Apr 20 04:18:52 1983
Received: Fri Apr 22 20:51:10 1983
References: micomvax.134

Well, Multics was an operating system for a multi-cpu machine.
UNIX was the similar operating system for a single-cpu machine.
I guess NONIX would be the operating system for matchbox computers!

(Seriously, perhaps that's what we should call those complicated routines
they had during WWII for calculations which involved routing slips of
paper between hundreds of people sitting at desks?)

david