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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: *nix - an abbreviation?
Message-ID: <5468@buengc.BU.EDU>
Date: 8 Mar 90 15:37:44 GMT
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Reply-To: bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton)
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In article <12312@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>In article <5167@balu.UUCP> fifi@cosmo.UUCP (A.F.Zinser) writes:
>>I don't want to know the meaning of '*', but the meaning of
>>'unix' - if there is one.
>
>It's the same as the meaning of the sound of no hands clapping.

Which is to say the sound of no postings progressing beyond
news.announce.newusers...

				--Blair
				  "RTFN.A.NFAQP."