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Subject: Re: UNIX NAME ABBREVIATIONS
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Date: Thu, 19-Nov-87 14:54:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 19 14:54:00 1987
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In article <16550@topaz.rutgers.edu>, ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes:
> >foobar  from foo divided by 2 pi
>While [the precise origins of foobar are unclear], this one seems unlikely.

I think this one was supposed to be cute.  I'm surprised that you missed the
most obvious blunder:  UNIX is not ``MULTICS ("Multiple Users Losing Totally
In Cruddy Software") unified'',  but rather

(if you believe AT&T) Uniprocessor MULTICS
(if you believe Ken and Dennis) Castrated MULTICS

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