13 Jun
2006
13 Jun
'06
1:20 p.m.
Hi,
"Bill Cunningham" <billcu1(a)verizon.net> writes:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Welle" <m.welle(a)gmx.net>
To: <tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 9:57 AM
Subject: [TUHS] Unix, eunuchs?
that sounds
familiar to me. The same story is told in 'A quarter
century of Unix' and other sources.
VG
hmw
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Hi,
last week a work mate told us a tale about how Unix came to its
name. He believes that Unix is named after the term eunuch (a
homophone of (to?) unix in english language). One can see Unix as a
castrated successor of Multics. Hmmm, I am interested in Unix history
for several years now, but I haven't heard about that before. It is
really a tale I guess. Any clear words about this topic?
Michael
I know Dennis have said pretty clearly that Unix is a pun on Multics
that the team really never got to start on because Bell changed there minds.
Ken continued with Unix which must've been his idea. In assembly first then
B. Dennis came up with C and its lasted down through the years.