On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 14:16 +0530, Vinayak Hegde wrote: > On 6/16/05, Amol Hatwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hehe... just as a fact from computing history, the word UNIX stems from > > eunuch. It (UNIX) was started as an alternative to MULTICS. > > The word UNIX is a wordplay on MULTICS coined by Brian Kernighan. > Uno == one , Multi = many. UNIX was earlier known as UNICS which > led to jokes (UNIX = castrated Multics) as it was a homophone of eunuch. > (btw UNICS = Uniplexed Information and Computing System). > > So the origin of UNIX does not lie in the word eunuch. Some websites > also wrongly attribute the origin of word UNIX as > UNIX = eunuch + Multics. Actually it was intended to be > UNIX = uni-Multics (UNICS)
Thanks boss I stand corrected. But I'd really like to see from where you get this bit of trivia :). Regards, ah -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
