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For some reason I never got into * nix, even if I studied and later worked in an university environment for several years.— PCLinuxOS-Forums
GIS began on * nix, and sees much higher performance that any other operating system, regardless of software package.— James Fee GIS Blog
By its lights, 86 is rhyming slang for nix, a word meaning 'to forbid, refuse, veto' (as in "The boss nixed my great plan for reorganizing the company").— New Urban Legends
Ant client computer, be it a mac or a pc or other * nix should be able to search the document repository.— Discussions: Message List - root

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