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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