[TUHS] UNIX System names - since UNIX was a Trademark

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Sat Sep 1 10:00:01 AEST 2018


On Fri, 31 Aug 2018, Clem Cole wrote:

> 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"

Just be glad that Hewlett-Packard was not called Packard-Hewlett...

-- Dave



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