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to: WILFRED VAN VELZEN
from: RICK CHRISTIAN
date: 2016-12-02 08:14:00
subject: Diskcopy

02 Dec 16 10:36, you wrote to Holger Granholm:

 WV> I don't know what you mean with '*nix demo CD'. *nix doesn't translate
 WV> to linux! ;)

* = ANY string , ie: U or Li , thus *nix does translate to Linux or Unix.

*nix is a common colloquial abbreviation for either Unix or Linux. In the past
with the multiple versions of Unices it might have been more common for a
striaght forward *nix to be referring to only Unices, after 1991 with Linux
around, that is not the case.


Rick


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