Help! Unemployed

Richard A. O'Keefe ok at atlas.otago.ac.nz
Fri Aug 10 01:17:08 UTC 2001


Jeff Szuhay <jeff at szuhay.org> wrote:
	Hmm... perhas the confusion lies with the likes
	of Apple and their QuickDraw, QuickTime, AppleScript,
	MacApp, FireWire, OpenDoc, ad nauseum;

Those are all made from pairs of words.

	UNIX (which doesn't stand for anything);

It does.  It stands for "one of whatever it is that Multics is several of."
Multics finally died a year or so ago.  When I finally got my hands on
some Multics documentation, I was stunned at how similar to UNIX it seemed.
I wish I'd had the chance to use Multics.	
	




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