On Tuesday 29 October 2002 23:27, Jordi Rosquillas wrote:
> That sounds logical if you realize that the X also has a relation with
> OS X core wich is based in UNIX, BTW, it would be interesting to trace
> back what does the X stands for in UNIX.
Um.
The last letter?
UNIX is to my knowledge not an acronym, and certainly nothing fancy like
those recursive thingies some of those gee^H^H^H clever developers come up
with.
It may have something to do with Multics, the operating system it was
supposed to improve upon.
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