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From: fozzard@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Richard Fozzard)
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Subject: What does UNIX stand for?
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Date: 11 May 89 06:25:52 GMT
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In article <7021@saturn.ucsc.edu> avalon@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Scott A. McIntyre) writes:
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>Please respond via email, as he does not even know what UNIX stands for...
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Well...I'd like to know what UNIX stands for....

Is it really just a pun on MULTICS?

Maybe it's an acronym, like Unusually Nasty Interface Xperiment?
And is it significant that its pronounciation is "eunuchs"?

Or does it stand for ideals, such as Life, Liberty, The Pursuit of Happiness?


It's very late and I seem to be babbling... :-)



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Richard Fozzard
University of Colorado				"Serendipity empowers"
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