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From: tj@mks.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: MULTICS (was UNIX) NAME ABBREVIATIONS
Message-ID: <318@mks.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 20-Nov-87 23:19:02 EST
Article-I.D.: mks.318
Posted: Fri Nov 20 23:19:02 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 22-Nov-87 09:44:30 EST
References: <10376@brl-adm.ARPA> <16550@topaz.rutgers.edu> <1942@frog.UUCP>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont.
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Summary: MULTICS stands for ...

In article <1942@frog.UUCP>, john@frog.UUCP (John Woods, Software) writes:
> most obvious blunder:  UNIX is not ``MULTICS ("Multiple Users Losing Totally
> In Cruddy Software") unified'',  but rather

Please get this right.
MULTICS really stands for:
	Many Unnecessarily Large Tables In Core Simultaneously

(You can't do that! It's against the lore!)

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