Actually, Yahoo! is an acronym "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle," which about summed things up.
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/misc/history.html insofar as UNIX goes, it actually does make sense if you consider what MULTICS stands for: MULTiplexed Information and Computing Service UNICS (the original name) is ofcourse: UNiplexed Information and Computing Service. (although the fact that it is pronounced the same as enuinch didn't hurt) AFAIK noone really remembers when or why the CS became an X but it did, and the rest is history. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
