Alan:

As I recall, Multics came castrated straight out of the box...   :-)

Dave


At 15:19 -0800 8/9/01, Alan Kay wrote:
>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
>
>------
>
>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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