Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!usc!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!buengc!bph From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: The Names of the Beast (contd) Message-ID: <3767@buengc.BU.EDU> Date: 15 Aug 89 14:42:48 GMT References: <20515@adm.BRL.MIL> <1615@mcgill-vision.UUCP> Reply-To: bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) Followup-To: comp.unix.wizards Organization: Boston Univ. Col. of Eng. Lines: 15 In article <1615@mcgill-vision.UUCP> mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse) writes: >I always thought Sun missed a good opportunity when they named their >version. We could have had Sunix instead of this boring SunOS.... I understand, but... "Soonix?" That's how I would pronounce it. Sunnix isn't quite the same, somehow. --Blair "Name recognition is very important, you know. For companies, too."