From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 25 20: 3: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rider.dunham.org (rider.dunham.org [207.170.123.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30BC814E62 for ; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 20:02:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dunham@dunham.org) Received: (from dunham@localhost) by rider.dunham.org (8.8.8/8.7.3) id VAA25115; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 21:58:02 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <19990225215801.F13017@rider.dunham.org> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 21:58:01 -0600 From: Jerry Dunham To: "Richard E. Hawkins Esq." , Gregory Sutter , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Generic Unix term? References: <19990224155800.O27934@orcrist.mediacity.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Richard E. Hawkins Esq. on Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 09:44:45AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 25 February 1999 at 9:44:45 -0600, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > > *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. > > sure, *nix is a word. It can be pronounced, > > a) splatnix > b) Linux-like operating system > c) bsd-like operating system > > :) Or go with the plural: unices. :-) -- Jerry Dunham FreeBSD Atarian ordinaire jdunham@fc.net jerry@dunham.org (512)335-0674 (H) jdunham@avalanche.us.dell.com (512)728-4026 (O) The gene pool could use a little chlorine. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message