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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Abbreviation: UNIX
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Date: 2 Oct 89 23:00:42 GMT
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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? :-),
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