The Name of the Beast

Crispin Goswell caag at inf.rl.ac.uk
Sat Jul 30 03:27:07 AEST 1988


In article <5007 at husc6.harvard.edu> sob at harvisr.UUCP (Scott Bradner) writes:
>	UNIX (tm)
>	ultrix
>	venix
>	xenix
>	A/UX
>	AIX
>	HP/UX (?)
>
>I know that there are many more, can I be enlightened by the semi-assembled

OK. I can think of:
	Eunice
	Genix
	Minix
	PNX	(I kid you not)
	UTS
	OSX
	SunOS
	OTS
	BSD
	Mach	(well, sort of)
	System V
	U**X	(the only one which is not a trademark of someone)

This is all a conspiracy by AT&T to distract people's attention from improving
on System V :-)
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