Salutations,
Right. But that doesn't explain P*lm. Geez.
But Unix was invented at Bell Labs at AT&T.
Novell bought it later to create their SNOS, Super Network Operating
System.
They sold it a few years ago to SCO. I think SCO still owns 'true' unix.
It's just a damn silly practice if you ask me. Of course, when I started
playing with linux years ago, I spelled it un*x also. Ahh, youth. :)
Cheers,
David
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> Monday, April 29, 2002, 1:57:00 AM, Jim wrote:
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>>> 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''?
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>> 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
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> Actually, Unix is copyrighted (By IBM IIRC) - which is why the whole Un*x
> thing
> started to begin with.
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> b
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> Bradford Schmidt
> http://www.bradfordschmidt.com
> mailto:brad_at_bradfordschmidt.com
>
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