From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: m.welle@gmx.net (Michael Welle) Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2006 15:57:09 +0200 Subject: [TUHS] Unix, eunuchs? Message-ID: <874pz21gwa.fsf@stella.c0t0d0s0.de> 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 -- biff4emacsen - A biff-like tool for (X)Emacs http://www.c0t0d0s0.de/biff4emacsen/biff4emacsen.html