*nix - an abbreviation?
James Brister
brister at td2cad.intel.com
Sat Mar 10 12:36:40 AEST 1990
So far I haven't seen what I heard was the meaning of the word "UNIX."
Seems Ken Thompson liked Multics enough to pattern some of UNIX after it,
but made it much smaller than Multics. UNIX is a castrated version of
Multics. Think about it....
James
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