On Thu, 02 Nov 2000, you wrote:
> UNIX .. UNIX is a trademark of Bell Laborotories. UNIX is not an acronym,
> but a weak pun on MULTICS, the OS worked on by Thompson and Ritchie
> before UNIX ....
>
> so sayeth Kernighan and Pike and they use UNIX throughout the book ..
>
and my ovver favourite quote from the preface :
"The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..."
the UNIX programmers manual, 2nd ed. JUNE 1972.
I think they were being wildly optimistic myself ...
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Robin Szemeti
The box said "requires windows 95 or better"
So I installed Linux!
