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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: *nix - an abbreviation?
Message-ID: <1990Mar8.132513.11780@virtech.uucp>
Date: 8 Mar 90 13:25:13 GMT
References: <5155@balu.UUCP> <1344@sys.uea.ac.uk>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
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In article <1344@sys.uea.ac.uk> cmp8118@sys.uea.ac.uk (D.S. Cartwright) 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'.

I guess it will have to be *X to allow for hp/ux and a/ux.  :-}


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