Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!sgi!daisy!klee From: klee@daisy.UUCP (Ken Lee) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,ca.unix Subject: what does "UNIX" really stand for? Message-ID: <1681@daisy.UUCP> Date: 27 Sep 88 16:53:23 GMT Reply-To: klee@daisy.UUCP (Ken Lee) Organization: Daisy Systems Corp., Mountain View, Ca. Lines: 15 There's an article in this week's "MIS Week" that claims that the name "UNIX" was invented by Brian Kernighan in the mid-1960'. He, along with Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, were once part of the MIT Multics project, but now part of the Bell Labs computer science lab. Ritchie and Thompson were developing a simpler, more elegant operating system. Kernighan called it "castrated Multics", thus UNIX. Anyone want to confirm or deny this? Ken -- uucp: {ames!atari, ucbvax!imagen, pyramid, sgi, uunet}!daisy!klee arpanet: daisy!klee@sgi.com or daisy!klee@uunet.uu.net I'm not a tourist, I was born in California.