Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!cbnewsh!mbb 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 References: <1620@tellab5.tellabs.CHI.IL.US> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 12 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. M. B. Brilliant Marty AT&T-BL HO 3D-520 (201) 949-1858 Holmdel, NJ 07733 att!hounx!marty1 or marty1@hounx.ATT.COM Disclaimer: Opinions stated herein are mine unless and until my employer explicitly claims them; then I lose all rights to them.