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From: brian@c3ns1.gcs.co.nz (Brian Burroughs)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: *nix - an abbreviation?
Message-ID: <1990Mar8.192053.11227@c3ns1.gcs.co.nz>
Date: 8 Mar 90 19:20:53 GMT
References: <5155@balu.UUCP> <7279@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Reply-To: brian@c3ns1 (Brian Burroughs)
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In article <7279@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:
>In article <5155@balu.UUCP> fifi@cosmo.UUCP (A.F.Zinser) writes:
>: does anybody know, what the abbreviation '*nix' stands for?
>
>Yes, we know, but we're not allowed to say.    :-)
>
>Larry Wall
>lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov

Tell me larry, are you any relation to Larry Laffer, my hero?

Brian.

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