Re: [NTLK] OT - P*lm and Un*x

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Monday, April 29, 2002, 1:57:00 AM, Jim wrote:

>> some sort of 'I'm a cool
>> hacker dude who spells it different because all of the old linux people
>> used
>> to spell Unix 'Un*x''?

> Well, Un*x does have some basis, as Linux, Unix, Minix, Multix and
> perhaps a few other OSs all share the common n*x spelling, wehre * is a
> wild-char. More precisely, it probably should something like

Actually, Unix is copyrighted (By IBM IIRC) - which is why the whole Un*x thing
started to begin with.

b

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