Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdahl!ames!elroy!gryphon!crash!carlb From: carlb@crash.cts.com (Carl Boernecke) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,ca.unix Subject: Re: what does "UNIX" really stand for? Message-ID: <3483@crash.cts.com> Date: 28 Sep 88 22:41:24 GMT References: <1681@daisy.UUCP> Reply-To: carlb@crash.CTS.COM (Carl Boernecke) Organization: Crash TS, El Cajon, CA Lines: 19 In article <1681@daisy.UUCP> klee@daisy.UUCP (Ken Lee) writes: >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. Well, I remember reading that it was a play of words on "Multics," and just another way of saying the number one (UNI), opperating system, with an X too make it sound more like the "s" on "Multics." I do not know if this is true, or not -- this is just something that I remembered. (Kinda like the '286 compatable, that's called the "8T" (say it out loud -- now do you get it?)). -- Carl Boernecke (carlb@crash.cts.com)