Wayne E. Van Loon Sr. wrote: > Pete Lancashire wrote: >> http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2011/10/dennis-ritchie/ >> > This story may be apocryphal, and, I can't recall just where I read or > heard it, but the story goes that Dennis Ritchie was on a committee at > Bell Labs that was outlining a new computer operating system. Some on > the committee were more conservative the Ritchie, who started referring > to the committee as the "eunuchs committee". The name for the operating > systems was later sanitized, of course, to Unix. > Wayne >
I believe the name was meant to be a play on Multics. http://www.livinginternet.com/i/iw_unix_dev.htm http://www.multicians.org/unix.html galen -- Galen Seitz [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
