31 Aug
2018
31 Aug
'18
9:25 p.m.
Fair enough, but was a cute joke that made those "in the know" smile (like
me), but less of a dig at a marketing naming IMO - like RHEL - not seeing
the obvious way to pronounce the name - duh. I was more thinking terms of
things like that that marketing folks just were clueless.
Clem
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On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 11:17 AM William Pechter <pechter(a)gmail.com> wrote:
UNIX is a trademark of AT&T
AT&T is a modem test command.
-----Original Message-----
From: Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com>
To: Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs(a)tuhs.org>
Sent: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 10:42
Subject: Re: [TUHS] UNIX System names - since UNIX was a Trademark
Dave Horsfall's comment about AIX made me think. The joker in me has
always been impressed by how marketing people 'missed' the obvious
pronunciations that would lead to serious
jokes.
Some of the more memorable ones from the UNIX world that I knew: AIX ->
"aches", CRDS -> "cruds", HP-UX -> HP "yucks" and
"hockey pucks" and my
favorite: RHEL -> "our hell"
I bet there are more and others I did know/consider ;-)
That said, I did hear a pro-VMS person in ZKO (*i.e.* a DECie) once tried
refered to "DEC Ultrix" as Dirty Tricks, but I never heard that one take
off/be repeated outside of ZKO.
For history we probably should try to collect them, although I fear the
context of the joke in the future may be lost.
Clem
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