hello all,
what is full name of operating system UNIX?

Dev wrote:
hello all,
what is full name of operating system UNIX?
Before anyone comment that "I should put this topic in UNIX" i would
like to say extremely sorry to everyone hence it posted by my friend
mistakely !!

Dev schrieb:
hello all,
what is full name of operating system UNIX?
Do you mean something like "tty '70"?

"Dev" <krunal.linux@gmail.comwrote in message
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what is full name of operating system UNIX?

Unix. It was coined by Brian Kernighan as a play on Multics,
a multi-user S developed by GE and others (including, for
a time, Bell Labs). The idea was that Unix would run on
machines small enough for use by one person -- an uncommon
thing three and a half decades ago.

BTW, Multics is essentially an acronym for some forgettable
combination of things like "multi user" and "control system",
IIRC.

P.J. Plauger
Dinkumware, Ltd.
http://www.dinkumware.com

P.J. Plauger wrote:
Unix. It was coined by Brian Kernighan as a play on Multics,
a multi-user S developed by GE and others (including, for
a time, Bell Labs). The idea was that Unix would run on
machines small enough for use by one person -- an uncommon
thing three and a half decades ago.

BTW, Multics is essentially an acronym for some forgettable
combination of things like "multi user" and "control system",
IIRC.

MULTiplexed Information and Computing Service?

(Wikipedia rules.)

"Grumble" <devnull@kma.eu.orgwrote in message
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P.J. Plauger wrote:
>Unix. It was coined by Brian Kernighan as a play on Multics,
>a multi-user S developed by GE and others (including, for
>a time, Bell Labs). The idea was that Unix would run on
>machines small enough for use by one person -- an uncommon
>thing three and a half decades ago.
>>
>BTW, Multics is essentially an acronym for some forgettable
>combination of things like "multi user" and "control system",
>IIRC.
>
MULTiplexed Information and Computing Service?

Sure, why not? I guess IIRI.

P.J. Plauger
Dinkumware, Ltd.
http://www.dinkumware.com

P.J. Plauger wrote:
"Dev" <krunal.linux@gmail.comwrote in message
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>>what is full name of operating system UNIX?
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Unix. It was coined by Brian Kernighan as a play on Multics,
a multi-user S developed by GE and others (including, for
a time, Bell Labs). The idea was that Unix would run on
machines small enough for use by one person -- an uncommon
thing three and a half decades ago.

BTW, Multics is essentially an acronym for some forgettable
combination of things like "multi user" and "control system",
IIRC.

P.J. Plauger
Dinkumware, Ltd.
http://www.dinkumware.com
--

I read somewhere, a long time ago, that when Ken Thompson demonstrated
the yet-to-be named S that Mr. Kerninghan exclaimed something like "Ha,
it's a castrated Multics!"

"Stan Milam" <stmilam@swbell.netwrote in message
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P.J. Plauger wrote:
"Dev" <krunal.linux@gmail.comwrote in message
news:1139486199.490688.301970@
>
>
>>what is full name of operating system UNIX?
>
>
Unix. It was coined by Brian Kernighan as a play on Multics,
a multi-user S developed by GE and others (including, for
a time, Bell Labs). The idea was that Unix would run on
machines small enough for use by one person -- an uncommon
thing three and a half decades ago.

BTW, Multics is essentially an acronym for some forgettable
combination of things like "multi user" and "control system",
IIRC.

I read somewhere, a long time ago, that when Ken Thompson demonstrated
the yet-to-be named S that Mr. Kerninghan exclaimed something like "Ha,
it's a castrated Multics!"

Correct. The 'forgettable' combination UNIX's name is described in an
excerpt here:

And on other sites, once you know what to search for

Rod Pemberton