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why is it called nix? unix without u (lemm.ee)
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[–] enemenemu@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I addition, https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/nix German, dutch, danish and norwegian share the common ~~west~~ germanic root and all have nix meaning nothing