From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cym224@gmail.com (Nemo) Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 08:07:17 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] And now ... In-Reply-To: <20160711120047.GA7921@minnie.tuhs.org> References: <20160711120047.GA7921@minnie.tuhs.org> Message-ID: On 11 July 2016 at 08:00, Warren Toomey wrote: > after the brief but illuminating detour on character sets and the > evolution of human languages, we now return you to the Unix Heritage > mailing list :-) > > [ Please! ] > > Cheers, Warren ACK but I cannot resist one last item: UNIX in the OED. Additions 1993 Unix, n. Computing. (ˈjuːnɪks) Also UNIX. [f. as a play on the earlier *Multics n., with uni- one for multi- many (after the relative compactness of the newer system) and with phonetic respelling of -ics as -ix.] A proprietary name for a multi-user operating system orig. designed for use with minicomputers. 1973 Bell Lab. Rec. LI. 200 Some of the concepts, especially for file-handling, appeared in a time-shared operating system called UNIX, which was designed and implemented at Bell Labs. 1978 Bell Syst. Techn. Jrnl. LVII. 1991 C‥is sufficiently expressive and efficient to have completely displaced assembly language programming on UNIX. 1983 Austral. Personal Computer Aug. 66/2 Xenix, the Microsoft implementation of Unix disk operating systems for microcomputers. 1985 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 29 Oct. tm63/1 UNIX‥.For computer programs‥. First use 12-14-1972. 1986 Trade Marks Jrnl. 5 Mar. 522/2 Unix‥Computer programmes, computing apparatus; [etc.] 1989 N.Y. Times 25 Oct. d1/4 A wider industry agreement on a single Unix standard would also increase the possibility that Unix will be widely adopted in the business computer market.