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-A multi-user operating system. Based on the earlier (1960's) operating system [Multics] ("MULTiplexed Information and Computing Service") which BellLabs felt was getting bloated, so they wrote their own system called Unix, which was "Multics without the balls".
+A multi-user operating system. Based on the earlier (1960's) operating system [Multics] ("MULTiplexed Information and Computing Service") which BellLabs felt was getting bloated, so they wrote their own system called Unix, which was "Multics without the balls" (or: "only one of whatever Multics was supposed to be a lot of")
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See also:
* [http://www.webopaedia.com/TERM/U/UNIX.html]
* JargonFile:UNIX
