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It's not an acronym. &nbsp;It was a pun on Multics<br />

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It's not an acronym.  It was a pun on Multics


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<a href="http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/u/Unix.html" rel="ugc">http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/u/Unix.html</a><br />

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http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/u/Unix.html [http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/u/Unix.html]


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Ok... this is a silly question, but I am writing a term paper and I cannot find what UNIX stands for.. could someone tell me?<br />
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thanks
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Ok... this is a silly question, but I am writing a term paper and I cannot find what UNIX stands for.. could someone tell me?

thanks

Acronym for Unix

Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 at Bell Labs. Today, it is a modern OS with many commercial flavors and licensees, including FreeBSD, Hewlett-Packard’s UX, IBM AIX and Apple Mac OS-X. Apart from its command-line interface, most UNIX variations support the standardized X Window System for GUIs, with the exception of the Mac OS, which uses a proprietary system.