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From: davidg@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (David Guntner)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: What does 'UNIX' mean ?
Message-ID: <11321@attctc.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 5 Feb 90 08:45:03 GMT
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From article <1671@uniol.UUCP>, by kuehnke@uniol.UUCP (Christian Kuehnke):
> I wonder where the name "UNIX" derives from: Is it an abbreviation or
> just another unix-like slang-expresion (like troff, awk, etc.) ?

RTFM. :-)  (For those about to whip out the flame-throwers, notice the 
            smiley....)

I suggest that you subscribe to news.announce.newusers.  About once every
month a whole series of messages get posted there with all kinds of information
that the new Usenetter should know about, including things like the history
of Usenet and UNIX.  One of the articles contain common questions and their
answers (and I've seen that one in there).
                --Dave

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        David Guntner  UUCP: {ames, mit-eddie}!attctc!davidg
                       INET: davidg@attctc.Dallas.TX.US  (killer)
"...New ship, but she's got the right name. ...Treat     --Admiral L. McCoy
 her like a lady, and she'll always bring you home."   "Encounter at Farpoint"