The Names of the Beast (contd)

Chuck Karish karish at forel.stanford.edu
Sat Aug 5 17:04:53 AEST 1989


In article <20515 at adm.BRL.MIL> rbj at dsys.ncsl.nist.gov (Root Boy Jim) wrote:
>? From: Scott Bradner <sob at harvisr.harvard.edu>

>? Well, here is the result of my request for the the 10,000 names of
>? UNIX.  What we have here is a list of the names of software that
>? is, tries to be, wishes it were, pretends to be, or looks a bit like UNIX.

>Yeah, but how about all the fantasy versions that never were?
>I'll start the list:

>tunics		Roman version

[ ... ]

>punix		small version for micros
 ^^^^^

I thought this was the Carthaginian version (or, is `punics'
something different?).  Shows how much I know.

	Chuck Karish		{decwrl,hpda}!mindcrf!karish
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