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From: jeff@mit-eddie.UUCP (Jeff Mattson)
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Subject: Re: Why the vax, but not the Unix??
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Date: Mon, 17-Jun-85 14:02:48 EDT
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> I would agree with previous posters, that it is "UNIX" rather than "the
> UNIX" because of intangibility.  Just as we say "he has integrity" rather
> than "he has the integrity."

But we would say, "He has the integrity in the family."  This sentence seems
to suppose that integrity is a tangible quantity and there's only so much in
one family.-- 
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