It was a B I G box!

Cheers,

Alan

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At 1:53 PM -0400 8/10/01, David N. Smith (IBM) wrote:
>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
>>
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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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