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From: tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: The True Naming of "UNIX"
Date: 3 Mar 1993 18:20:18 -0500
Organization: Mentor Graphics -- IC Group
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In <5416@wet.UUCP> egret@wet.UUCP (thomas helke) writes:
>Oh, Tom, now both you and I know your story about Dominus is
>utter bullshit. The true story, as cited in "UNIX: The Castrated
>Giant" (now out-of-print), is as follows:
>
>On that fateful night, Mark-Jason Dominus announced that he was
>soon to have a sex reassignment operation. (It just happened to
>be the same night of the naming of the new and ever so brilliant
>system software.) His ignorant, but well-meaning coworkers asked,
>"How shall we refer to you ... as a eunuch?" Dominus let out a
>high-pitched whimper and quickly left the building.
>
>Drunk and confused, he sped out of the parking lot. He had no
>intentions of returning, that night. Nor would he ... ever.
>
>His car careened out of control, hit a telephone pole, and
>Dominus was catapulted through the front windows of a 7-11. His
>spine snapped like kindling against the Slurpy machine. There
>would be no sex reassignment surgery for Dominus. However, his
>coworkers grieved for this software genius and, in honor of his
>dream and of transexuals everywhere, named the new software,
>"EUNUCHS." It was later streamlined to the familiar "UNIX."
>
>In Memory of Mark-Jason (aka "Judy") Dominus.
WRONG. There is absolutely NO 7-11 in Murray Hill, NJ.
Could you be thinking of the Friendly's?
Tom
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I can't even do the accent.