From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2002-11-13T04:47:22+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: EuRuKo: European Ruby conference

On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 03:53:13AM +0900, Michael Campbell wrote:
> > In fact AFAIK it was a pun on "MULTIX" and "EUNUCHS" (UNIX being a
> > castrated version of MULTIX).
> 
> http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/Unix.html
> 
> No reference to castration there.
> 

I read it somewhere; it's perhaps an 'urban legend' (Unix City :),
but it's a fairly common one, though not enough to deserve a mention in
the Jargon file.

It makes sense, anyway.

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