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From: mbb@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (martin.b.brilliant)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Abbreviation: UNIX
Message-ID: <4350@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>
Date: 29 Sep 89 00:25:15 GMT
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From article <1620@tellab5.tellabs.CHI.IL.US>, by toth@tellab5.tellabs.CHI.IL.US (Joseph G. Toth Jr.):
> By the way, what does UNIX stand for?? (setting up for a barage of bad jokes?)

UNIX was named after MULTICS.  UNIX is a registered trademark of AT&T.
It is not and never was an acronym.

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