Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!oliveb!mipos3!omepd!merlyn From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: Abbreviation: UNIX Message-ID: <5000@omepd.UUCP> Date: 2 Oct 89 23:00:42 GMT References: <1620@tellab5.tellabs.CHI.IL.US> <4350@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>Sender: news@omepd.UUCP Reply-To: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) Organization: Stonehenge; netaccess via Intel, Hillsboro, Oregon, USA Lines: 13 In-reply-to: rodney@sun.ipl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck II) In article , rodney@sun (Rodney Peck II) writes: | But Multics is an acronym. Anyone know what it stands for? Well, since it was so "indirect-happy", I believe the official unofficial expansion was quoted as: Many Unbelievably Large Tables In Core Simultaneously Just another UNIX hacker (is that redundant? :-), -- /== Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 ====\ | on contract to Intel's iWarp project, Hillsboro, Oregon, USA, Sol III | | merlyn@iwarp.intel.com ...!uunet!iwarp.intel.com!merlyn | \== Cute Quote: "Welcome to Oregon... Home of the California Raisins!" ==/