Re: Page on www.amiga.de for NetBSD

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On 26.05.98, 10:26:12, Ben Steeves wrote:
> On Tue, 26 May 1998 bsieker%techfak.uni-bielefeld.de@localhost wrote:
> 
> > > 
> > >  NetBSD has - unless other free UNICES - another idea to distribute the
> >                 unlike            ^^^^^^ is that the correct plural form?
> > 
>       No, it ought to be UNIXes or UNIX'es, depending on how strict your

Certainly never ever with a '

No language appends the plural -s with an apostrophe. Not French, not
German, not even English.

UNICES is nice and similar to index - indices, appendix - appendices.

> English teacher was :)  And depending on how strict your copyright lawyers
> are, you might want to say UN*X instead of UNIX. 

The word UNIX may be used to describe UNIX-like operating systems, even
if they are not made by AT&T.

> 
> Cheers!
> 
> --
> 
> Ben C. Steeves - bcs%nbnet.nb.ca@localhost
> 

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Bernd Sieker