Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!mcvax!dkuug!freja!seindal
From: seindal@freja.dk (Rene' Seindal)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Re: The Name of the Beast
Message-ID: <3956@freja.dk>
Date: 31 Jul 88 21:58:53 GMT
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Organization: DIKU, U of Copenhagen, DK
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>>> Xinu (stands for "Xinu is no [sic] Unix")
>>
>>Are you sure?  The story I heard was that the official name of Xinu is
>>"Mt Xinu", which is really "Unix tm", backwards.

>no doubt this is the honest-to-god truth as far as the person who invented
>it is concerned, but i suspect the lawyers prefer the "Xinu is not UNIX"
>version much better.

You shouldn't mix up Xinu (Douglas Comers baby OS for LSI-11's) with Mt. Xinu,
which sells 4.3BSD with NFS.  They are totally unrelated.

Rene' Seindal, DIKU, U. of Copenhagen, Denmark. (seindal@diku.dk)