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Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uchinews!not-for-mail From: eric@fudge.uchicago.edu (Eric Fischer) Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things X-Nntp-Posting-Host: fudge.uchicago.edu Message-ID: <E0oD0w.A38@midway.uchicago.edu> Followup-To: alt.folklore.computers Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services References: <55vhpf$q3o@mail1.wg.waii.com> <560d4o$c68@panix2.panix.com> <328631EA.346F@jpmorgan.com> <ralphp-1011961555120001@du-18.gcstation.net> Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 21:58:08 GMT Lines: 12 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:26241 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1454 alt.folklore.computers:124351 [followups directed to a.f.c] Ralph Wade Phillips <ralphp@gcstation.net> wrote: > (For the $64K question - The Apple Lisa had both a REAL and a > STATED reason for the name. Who knows both?) It supposedly stands for "Locally Integrated Software Architecture" (yeah, right) but the story goes that it's really the name of Steve Jobs's daughter. Eric