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From: ghe@mist.cs.orst.edu (Guangliang He)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: *nix - an abbreviation?
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Date: 7 Mar 90 22:55:59 GMT
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In article <1344@sys.uea.ac.uk> cmp8118@sys.uea.ac.uk (D.S. Cartwright) writes:
>fifi@cosmo.UUCP (A.F.Zinser) writes:
>
>other, similar systems. Therefore, using the standard UNIX wildcard *, the
>term *NIX (or more accurately *IX to allow for those like AIX which don't fit
>*NIX) is used to get across the concept of 'all (or most) UNIX-like systems'.
>

What about AU/X (Apple Unix) and RX (Ridge Unix)? They don't fit in the 
general expression *IX :-). Some one may find some name even doesn't fit
it *X.

ghe@mist.cs.orst.edu