[Info-vax] Long uptime cut short by Hurricane Sandy

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <oeKdndYT1_87So7MnZ2dnUVZ_qydnZ2d at giganews.com>,
	"Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
> On 2/5/2013 1:37 PM, David Froble wrote:
>> Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>
>>> Based on the popularity of things like the comp.sources.* groups I really
>>> don't think NIH was a problem in the Unix world.
>>
>> Oh, really ????
>>
>> Then why do we have Linux ????
>>
>> Or for that matter, why so many different Unixes ????
> 
> Since the plural of index is indices, shouldn't the plural of "Unix" be 
> written Unices! ;-)

While I have seen it both ways (and have actually used both forms) I
suspect because Unix is a proper name one wold not change the spekking
of the word when pluralizing it.  Is the plural of Vax Vaces?  If I have
two friends named Maxwell do I call them Maces when they are together?  :-)

bill

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