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> 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".

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