Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!sun-barr!lll-winken!uunet!ksr!clj From: clj@ksr.com (Chris Jones) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Multics etymology Message-ID: <560@ksr.UUCP> Date: 3 Oct 89 17:41:42 GMT References: <1620@tellab5.tellabs.CHI.IL.US> <4350@cbnewsh.ATT.COM><5000@omepd.UUCP> Sender: nobody@ksr.UUCP Reply-To: clj@ksr.com (Chris Jones) Organization: Kendall Square Research Corp Lines: 7 In-reply-to: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) In article , rodney@sun (Rodney Peck II) writes: > But Multics is an acronym. Anyone know what it stands for? > MULTiplexed Information and Computing Service (Note, Service, not System. Multics was designed to be a "computer utility" (the electric company was the model)).