[TUHS] UNIX System names - since UNIX was a Trademark
William Pechter
pechter at gmail.com
Sat Sep 1 01:17:54 AEST 2018
UNIX is a trademark of AT&T
AT&T is a modem test command.
-----Original Message-----
From: Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com>
To: Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs at tuhs.org>
Sent: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 10:42
Subject: Re: [TUHS] UNIX System names - since UNIX was a Trademark
Dave Horsfall's comment about AIX made me think. The joker in me has
always been impressed by how marketing people 'missed' the obvious
pronunciations that would lead to serious
jokes.
Some of the more memorable ones from the UNIX world that I knew: AIX ->
"aches", CRDS -> "cruds", HP-UX -> HP "yucks" and "hockey pucks" and my
favorite: RHEL -> "our hell"
I bet there are more and others I did know/consider ;-)
That said, I did hear a pro-VMS person in ZKO (*i.e.* a DECie) once tried
refered to "DEC Ultrix" as Dirty Tricks, but I never heard that one take
off/be repeated outside of ZKO.
For history we probably should try to collect them, although I fear the
context of the joke in the future may be lost.
Clem
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