*nix - an abbreviation?

[Guangliang He]

In article <1344 at sys.uea.ac.uk> cmp8118 at sys.uea.ac.uk (D.S. Cartwright) writes:
>fifi at 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 at mist.cs.orst.edu