Help! Unemployed

Rosemary Michelle Simpson rms at cs.brown.edu
Thu Aug 9 17:23:21 UTC 2001


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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