*nix - an abbreviation?

[Conor P. Cahill]

In article <1344 at sys.uea.ac.uk> cmp8118 at 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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