January 23, 2010

not an acronym


The name of the popular computer operating system, "unix", is a joke, not an acronym.

Really. "Unix" (originally "unics") was a pun on "castrated multics", multics (which is an acronym, for "Multiplexed Information and Computing Service") being the name of an earlier operating system.

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