From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhtsa!alice!npoiv!houxm!houxz!hocda!spanky!burl!duke!mcnc!ncsu!msdc!gatech!arnold
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: Re: What does UNIX stand for?
Article-I.D.: gatech.145
Posted: Thu Apr 28 18:20:49 1983
Received: Sat Apr 30 06:42:26 1983


References: ihuxf.331


Brian Kernighan called it (the origianl pdp-7 system) Unix as a *pun*
on multics. apparently since multics was big and complex (many), while
unix was small and simple (one).
   Dennis Ritchie described the early history of unix as the guest speaker
at a conference in Australia, approx 1978. I have the paper, which is where
i got the above info from. if people are really interested, i'll dig it up
and send to the net where it's published

arnold robbins
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