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

Bill Gunshannon billg999 at cs.uofs.edu
Thu Feb 7 16:33:04 EST 2013


In article <00ACE8D1.2C449D67 at sendspamhere.org>,
	VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
> 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.
 
And now you have to throw Vaces in the mix...

bill

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