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From: rodney@sun.ipl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck II)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Abbreviation: UNIX
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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
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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