From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Cc: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Re: [TUHS] UNIX or unix
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2019 14:39:32 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191109193932.2448E18C0B8@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> (raw)
> From: Nemo Nusquam
> One comment .. stated that (s)he worked at The Bell and they wrote it
> "unix" (lower-case) to distinguish it from MULTICS. Anyone care to
> comment on this?
All the original Multics hardcopy documentation I have (both from GE and MIT,
as well as later material from Honeywell) spells it 'Multics'. Conversely, an
original V6 UPM spells it 'UNIX'; I think it switched to 'Unix' around the
time of V7. (I don't know about _really_ early, like on the PDP-7.)
The bit about case to differentiate _might_ be right.
Noel
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2019-11-09 19:39 Noel Chiappa [this message]
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2019-11-09 17:20 Nemo Nusquam
2019-11-09 19:43 ` Paco López
2019-11-09 20:36 ` Derrik Walker v2.0
2019-11-09 21:05 ` Mary Ann Horton
2019-11-09 21:23 ` Clem Cole
2019-11-10 0:07 ` Steve Johnson
2019-11-11 8:07 ` Dr Iain Maoileoin
2019-11-11 19:58 ` Dave Horsfall
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