Re: [NTLK] [OT] Next Computer

From: THX 1138 (onefishtwofish_at_mac.com)
Date: Wed Jan 09 2002 - 17:11:19 EST

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Verily, on 1/9/02, Sunder quoth:
>Unix - a play on the name of a multi user time sharing os named multics.

I once heard tell that it was also a play on the word eunuch
(yoo-nick), from the neutered servants of the Chinese emperor.

True? False?

(normally I'd apologize for being OT, but does it matter now, really?)

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