From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!rlgvax!guy
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: Re: What does UNIX stand for?
Article-I.D.: rlgvax.350
Posted: Fri Apr 29 02:04:15 1983
Received: Sat Apr 30 04:08:39 1983
References: micomvax.134 mit-eddi.125 cvl.226


	Multics for a multi-processor machine, Unix for a uniprocessor,
	and here at Maryland we are working on Mobix for a mob-of-z80's
	processor called ZMOB.  (One mob is approximately 256).

A minor correction: Multics stood for "Multiplexed Information and Computing
System" (or "Service"; it's been a while since I've been near Multics).
The "Mult" didn't refer to the fact that it ran on a multi-processor system
(since it ran on an N-processor system, where N ranged from 1 up to around
6, so it needn't have been multi-processor), but, I believe, to the fact
that it was a multi-user system, with the machine resources multiplexed
between users (a $10 way of saying "time-sharing").

					Guy Harris
					RLG Corporation
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