Galen Seitz wrote: > 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 > And ... <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix>
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