From: grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey)
Subject: [pups] Interesting PDP/Xenix History
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 09:08:46 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020331090846.Z62150@wantadilla.lemis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1017486208.3ca59b80ccd80@w3.fwn.rug.nl>
On Saturday, 30 March 2002 at 12:03:28 +0100, Lars Buitinck wrote:
> Thus spake Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at lemis.com>:
>>
>> Note that in English, the X is usually pronounced like an S ("zie
>> niks"). Siemens made a pun on this with their Sinix product; "Sinix"
>> in German is pronounced the same way as "XENIX" in English :-)
>
> Siemens' computer division is (or was) called Nixdorf...
No, Siemens and Nixdorf merged in the early 90s.
> I always read Sinix as SIemens NIXdorf
Interesting derivation, but Sinix has been around since before Siemens
and Nixdorf merged.
Greg
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2002-03-25 2:39 Frank Wortner
2002-03-25 10:15 ` Johnny Billquist
2002-03-25 15:18 ` Frank Wortner
2002-03-26 7:41 ` Michael Davidson
2002-03-26 18:06 ` Frank Wortner
2002-03-25 10:38 ` Robert Tillyard
2002-03-26 23:41 ` Warren Toomey
2002-03-27 0:47 ` Michael Davidson
2002-03-27 23:24 ` Lars Buitinck
2002-03-27 23:58 ` Michael Davidson
2002-03-29 21:36 ` Lars Buitinck
2002-03-28 1:28 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2002-03-28 2:33 ` Peter Jeremy
2002-03-30 11:03 ` Lars Buitinck
2002-03-30 23:38 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey [this message]
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2002-04-03 9:52 asmodai
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2002-04-03 9:14 Fred N. van Kempen
2002-04-03 9:45 ` quapla
2002-04-03 16:25 ` Michael Davidson
2002-04-02 22:38 asmodai
2002-04-03 3:31 ` Frank Wortner
2002-03-23 19:43 Martin Crehan
2002-03-24 4:26 ` Warren Toomey
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