From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 24 15:58:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from orcrist.mediacity.com (orcrist.mediacity.com [208.138.36.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8694414BF7 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 15:58:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gsutter@orcrist.mediacity.com) Received: (from gsutter@localhost) by orcrist.mediacity.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA17298; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 15:58:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gsutter) Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 15:58:00 -0800 From: Gregory Sutter To: Alan Weber Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Generic Unix term? Message-ID: <19990224155800.O27934@orcrist.mediacity.com> References: <19990223200542.L27934@orcrist.mediacity.com> <19990224175048.A10277@austin.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <19990224175048.A10277@austin.rr.com>; from Alan Weber on Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 05:50:48PM -0600 Organization: Zer0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 05:50:48PM -0600, Alan Weber wrote: > On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 08:05:42PM -0800, Gregory Sutter wrote: > --> There's BSD, Linux, AIX, SCO, Solaris, Citrix, etc, but is there a > --> single, non-copyrighted, non-trademarked term describing all systems > --> that are based on or function like Unix? > --> > > I have seen *nix used a lot. BTW isn't Citrix an NT vendor a la winframe?? *nix isn't a word, though. I am looking for something that can be spoken as well as written, and "Starnix" or "Asterisknix" just doesn't cut it. You're right about Citrix. Don't know what I was thinking. I guess I got carried away with thinking of "-ix"es. Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter Mostly Harmless mailto:gsutter@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message