Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!rpi.edu!rodney From: rodney@sun.ipl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck II) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: Abbreviation: UNIX Message-ID:Date: 30 Sep 89 18:59:40 GMT References: <1620@tellab5.tellabs.CHI.IL.US> <4350@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Image Processing Lab, Troy NY Lines: 17 In-Reply-To: mbb@cbnewsh.ATT.COM's message of 29 Sep 89 00:25:15 GMT In article <4350@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> mbb@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (martin.b.brilliant) writes: m> From article <1620@tellab5.tellabs.CHI.IL.US>, m> 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?) m> UNIX was named after MULTICS. UNIX is a registered trademark of AT&T. m> It is not and never was an acronym. But Multics is an acronym. Anyone know what it stands for? PS: One of the last Multics machines just went away. radc-multics is now officially offline. sigh. -- Rodney