From: William Pechter <pechter@gmail.com>
To: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>,Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] UNIX System names - since UNIX was a Trademark
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 11:17:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3b0a2895-4a6b-48c4-87da-cc1018d7b665.maildroid@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2OecE9WX8o4A+VgtEi51c3_QiXQQSq7_t1YGwNK_FG8kw@mail.gmail.com>
UNIX is a trademark of AT&T
AT&T is a modem test command.
-----Original Message-----
From: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
To: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-31 15:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-29 14:25 [TUHS] cat -v and other complaints Clem Cole
2018-08-29 22:34 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-08-29 23:36 ` Larry McVoy
2018-08-30 1:14 ` Clem cole
2018-08-30 1:15 ` Clem cole
2018-08-30 2:43 ` Kevin Bowling
2018-08-30 2:59 ` George Michaelson
2018-08-31 0:27 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-08-31 0:41 ` Dan Cross
2018-08-31 1:58 ` Larry McVoy
2018-08-31 11:38 ` ron
2018-08-31 14:41 ` [TUHS] UNIX System names - since UNIX was a Trademark Clem Cole
2018-08-31 15:13 ` Eric Wayte
2018-08-31 15:17 ` William Pechter [this message]
2018-08-31 15:25 ` Clem Cole
2018-09-01 0:10 ` John P. Linderman
2018-09-01 0:18 ` ron
2018-09-01 0:55 ` Nemo
2018-09-01 7:37 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-09-01 13:54 ` Nemo
2018-09-01 17:03 ` Paul Winalski
2018-09-03 1:14 ` Robert Brockway
2018-09-30 20:57 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-10-01 16:26 ` Paul Winalski
2018-09-01 0:00 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-08-31 21:56 ` [TUHS] cat -v and other complaints Cág
2018-09-01 3:37 ` Andrew Warkentin
2018-09-03 18:04 ` Cág
2018-09-03 18:11 ` Kurt H Maier
2018-09-03 18:56 ` Cág
2018-09-04 6:10 ` Andy Kosela
2018-09-04 6:41 ` ron minnich
2018-09-04 9:34 ` Andy Kosela
2018-09-04 10:23 ` Dan Cross
2018-09-04 14:22 ` ron minnich
2018-09-06 20:02 ` Andy Kosela
2018-09-06 20:49 ` ron minnich
2018-09-06 21:55 ` Andy Kosela
2018-09-07 1:59 ` Dan Cross
2018-09-07 4:40 ` Andy Kosela
2018-09-30 21:32 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-09-03 20:08 ` Bakul Shah
2018-09-03 20:41 ` Kurt H Maier
2018-09-03 21:46 ` Bakul Shah
2018-09-04 0:52 ` Kurt H Maier
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