Found out today that "unix" was a pun on "eunuchs", and it's exactly the kind of bullshit I'm DONE with in tech.
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"Garfinkel and Abelson cite: Peter Neumann at Bell Labs, watching a demonstration of the prototype, suggested the pun name UNICS – pronounced "eunuchs" – as a "castrated Multics", although Dennis Ritchie is said to have denied this." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multics#Unix …
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