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

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Thu Feb 7 15:35:08 EST 2013


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! ;-)

Oh no!  I'm having a bad flashback to the VAXes or VAXen debate.

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