ahum, What is a multics?

(I know that castrating a Mule does not hurt, as long as you do not put your
fingers between the two stones.)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Kay [mailto:Alan.Kay at squeakland.org]
> Sent: vrijdag 10 augustus 2001 1:20
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Cc: Rosemary Michelle Simpson
> Subject: Re: Help! Unemployed
> 
> 
> Yes, two plays on words:
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>    * 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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