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  1. Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!julienas!nenufar.saclay.cea.fr!leda!daniel
  3. From: daniel@ledaserma.cea.fr (Daniel BRAUN)
  4. Subject: Re: UNIX: Acronym?
  5. Sender: @nenufar.saclay.cea.fr
  6. Message-ID: <1992Dec23.130743.16319@nenufar.saclay.cea.fr>
  7. Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 13:07:43 GMT
  8. Reply-To: daniel@soleil.serma.cea.fr (Daniel Braun)
  9. References: <1992Dec4.104915.7303@gmd.de> <1992Dec4.193328.7888@cdf.toronto.edu> <1992Dec15.091834.1112@infoware.co.za> <1992Dec16.220646.20353@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com>
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  15. |> >was lying around at Bell labs. Since they were incorporating some of the
  16. |> >concepts they had been working on for the Multics project, they called it
  17. |> >"UNICS". This was later shortened to "Unix".
  18.  
  19. that's also the story i had heard... UNICS would stand for 
  20. "UNIplexed ..." (vs multics= multiplexed.....") :)
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