Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 15:58:00 -0800 From: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com> To: Alan Weber <aaweber@austin.rr.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Generic Unix term? Message-ID: <19990224155800.O27934@orcrist.mediacity.com> In-Reply-To: <19990224175048.A10277@austin.rr.com>; from Alan Weber on Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 05:50:48PM -0600 References: <19990223200542.L27934@orcrist.mediacity.com> <19990224175048.A10277@austin.rr.com>
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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
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