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crazydiamond on Aug 15, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to Write an Operating System

Actually, it's Unix backwards, but surely you knew that.

ralph on Aug 18, 2010 [–]

As well as being Unix backwards, it's also a recursive acronym; Xinu is not Unix.

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