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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] and [http
://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/Unix.html] and [http
://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/
Multics.html].
+See also:
+*
[http://www.webopaedia.com/TERM/U/UNIX.html]
+* JargonFile
:UNIX
+* JargonFile:Multics
+* WikiPedia:UNIX
+* WikiPedia
:Multics
UNIX is a registered trademark of AT and T (although this has been sold now?). This is why you might see some people refer to the free systems (such as [Linux], and the [*BSD]s) as "unix-like" or "u*nix".
