Re: What is UNIX?

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From: Duane T. Mun
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1993 06:32

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"Mayan" == Mayan Moudgill <moudgill@cs.cornell.edu> writes:

Mayan> 	What is UNIX?

UNIX is a registered trade mark of...Novell?  USG?  X/Open?

UNIX is a buzz word for managers to throw around over lunch.

UNIX is a pun on MULTICS.

UNIX is the answer, but over time, the question was forgotten.

UNIX is an operating system, originally developed at Bell Labs.

BTW...GNU's not UNIX!...Neither is BSD! :)

-- dtm

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