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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!rde!eric
- From: eric@homebase.vistachrome.com (Eric Brunson)
- Subject: Re: UNIX: Acronym?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.142306.20361@homebase.vistachrome.com>
- Organization: Vista-Chrome Incorporated
- References: <1992Dec4.104915.7303@gmd.de> <1992Dec4.193328.7888@cdf.toronto.edu> <1992Dec15.091834.1112@infoware.co.za> <1992Dec15.122929.9847@ericsson.se> <1992Dec15.183125.1703@cae.prds.cdx.mot.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 14:23:06 GMT
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- dan@cae.prds.cdx.mot.com (Dan Breslau) writes:
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- >etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon) writes:
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- >>A couple of points, it was a pdp-7 not a pdp-8 and Unix was developed
- >>by Richard Thompson who (or so the story goes) got tired of taking a
- >>deck of cards to the local gcos system for cross assembly.
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- >When Unix was first developed, Richard Thompson was still the
- >lead guitarist of Fairport Convention, a great British folk-rock group.
- >Perhaps you mean Ken Thompson?
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- Yes, I think he probably meant Ken. And on a different note, according to
- one of the 'History of UNIX' articles I have perused, the term UNIX
- is attributed to Brian Kernighan. Things that make you go "Hmmmmmmm".
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- >;-)
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- >Dan Breslau
- >dan@codex.com
- >Disc claimer: "Hey! That's my floppy!")
-
- --
- | | Dear Auntie Em, | Eric Brunson
- |o| I hate Kansas. I hate | eric@vistachrome.com
- | | the farm. I hate you. | brunson@math.fsu.edu
- | | I'm leaving. |
- | | Dorothy |
- |o| P.S. |
- | | Took the dog. |
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