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From: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Name for V7 workalike ( was Re: Unix V7 functionality ... )
Keywords: Hitchikers Guide, Ford Prefect, arakkis
Message-ID: <14119@gryphon.COM>
Date: 2 Apr 89 21:53:48 GMT
References: <13869@gryphon.COM> <132@hcr.UUCP>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <132@hcr.UUCP> edwin@hcrvax.UUCP (Edwin Hoogerbeets) writes:
>In article <13869@gryphon.COM> ddave@pnet02.UUCP writes:
>>Why not just call it "ix"?  (Or how about "Kix"?) :-)
>
>Can't do that. Everyone knows that "ix" is a word in the ancient
>Betelguesian tongue that means:
>
>"Boy who cannot adequately explain what a Great Hrung is nor why it
>should choose to collapse upon Betelguese 7."

It's also the name for the world with intelligent machines in _Dune_.

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