Help! Unemployed
Alan Kay
Alan.Kay at squeakland.org
Thu Aug 9 23:19:40 UTC 2001
Yes, two plays on words:
* UNIX was originally a single user system
* It was the answer to the question: "What do you get when you
castrate a Multics?"
Cheers,
Alan
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At 1:23 PM -0400 8/9/01, Rosemary Michelle Simpson wrote:
>On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Jeff Szuhay wrote:
>
>> Hmm... perhas the confusion lies with the likes
>> of Apple and their QuickDraw, QuickTime, AppleScript,
>> MacApp, FireWire, OpenDoc, ad nauseum; UNIX (which doesn't
>> stand for anything); GNU, Gnu, and other variants; and even better NeXT.
>
>Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that UNIX was a play upon
>words as a descendant (of sorts) of Multics.
>
>R.
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