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The original Unix people were also - allegedly - aware of the pun on "Eunuchs", and joked about calling it an emasculated or "Eunuch" version of Multics. I'd lo
by sourcepluck 2y ago
The original Unix people were also - allegedly - aware of the pun on "Eunuchs", and joked about calling it an emasculated or "Eunuch" version of Multics. I'd love a bit of historical information on that, but it certainly is amusing.
- p_l 2y agoI have encountered mentions of discussions where Unics/Unix was purposefully read as "eunuch" as joke reference of "Multics without balls", but nothing that could be attributed/verified.
- sourcepluck 2y agoI chuckled at this. My fingers are firmly crossed now hoping Ken Thompson or some other legend from the good old days jumps in to englighten and maybe even regale us.
- kps 2y agoThe pun is mentioned in the 1979 BLTJ Paper, The Evolution of the Unix Time-sharing System¹. ¹ https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/hist.pdf https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/hist.pdf