... > dos is perfectly legal, as in dos and don'ts. According to the Oxford > Talking Dictionary Unix is a proprietary name, yet they spell it as I have > done. Although I suppose whoever owns the name can spell it however they > like, its not afaik an acronym, so by writing UNIX all youre doing is giving > the owners free advertising.
According to "The Design of the Unix(R) Operating System" (ISBN 0-13-201757-1), the name Unix was (is) a pun on the name "Multics". Multics was (developed as far as) a single user system (Multi- prefix meaning "many"), and Unix is a many user system (Uni- prefix meaning "one", or "single"). Incidently, those barbers and hairdressers that describe themselves as "Unisex salons" ought really to be calling themselves "Omnisex salons" - most salons are unisex, catering for one sex: male or female (Uni- =: one, Omni- := all); though it probably originated as an abbreviation of "Universal Salon". _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
