Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!sci34hub!gary 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> Lines: 14 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. -- Gary Heston { uunet!gary@sci34hub } System Mismanager SCI Technology, Inc. OEM Products Department (i.e., computers) Hestons' First Law: I qualify virtually everything I say.