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From: gary@sci34hub.UUCP (Gary Heston)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Abbreviation: RTFM
Summary: UNIX name origin
Message-ID: <341@sci34hub.UUCP>
Date: 30 Sep 89 02:07:29 GMT
References: <1620@tellab5.tellabs.CHI.IL.US>
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In article <1620@tellab5.tellabs.CHI.IL.US>, toth@tellab5.tellabs.CHI.IL.US (Joseph G. Toth Jr.) writes:
 
> By the way, what does UNIX stand for?? (setting up for a barage of bad jokes?)

UNIX was named to differentiate it from a multi-user mainframe 
operating system called Multics, compressing a few letters 
phonetically. UNIX was so named because it was a single-user
OS, originally. It wasn't multi for the first few versions.


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