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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
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Date: 31 May 1997 12:35:49 GMT
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In article <5miekm$8pa$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>,
Duckula <brettw@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au> wrote:
> Aaaah, but the best of all is GNU which stands for "GNU is Not Unix".

I think XINU (Xinu Is Not UNIX) came first. It was (is?) Barry Comer's
UNIX-like operating system for his O/S class. Written on the PDP-11
I think, in Concurrent Euclid.
-- 
The Reverend Peter da Silva, ULC, COQO, BOFH, 3D0G, KIBO, POPE Ziggy Wotzit II.
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