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In article <1709@kuling.UUCP> bqt@popup (BQT) writes:
>In article <3321@mindlink.UUCP>, a80@mindlink (Greg Goss) writes:
>>Perhaps it's considered too obvious to a bunch of Unix hacks, but the recursive
>>name of GNU is interesting.  Some of us are fascinated by recursion.
>>
>>GNU stands for Gnu is Not Unix, where GNU stands for ...
>
>Well, this is older than UNIX (I suspect).
>
>You had two editors, long lost in the mist of time by now.
>(I've never seen them).
>They were reputedadly called:
>
>EINS (Which meant Eins Is Not ???? (Don't remember what S stood for,
>      SOS manybe)).
>then came
>ZWEI (Zwei Was Eins Initially)
>
>There are surely more of these...
>
Doug Comer, of AT&T, describes the XINU operating system in his book
"Operating Systems Design: The XINU Approach."  According to Peter Denning, in
the Foreward, XINU stands for Xinu Is Not Unix.

I guess the list of Things That Are Not Unix (TTANU) is pretty long... :-)


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