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From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Cc: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Re: [TUHS] The Unix shell: a 50-year view - hopefully final review of letter
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2021 16:02:37 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210710200237.28FA018C0AB@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> (raw)

    > From: Jon Steinhart

    > I use UNIX instead of Unix as that's what I believe is the correct form.

Well, Bell documentation uses "UNIX" through V6:

  https://minnie.tuhs.org//cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V6/usr/doc/start/start

"Unix" starts to appear with V7:

  https://minnie.tuhs.org//cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7/usr/doc/setup

As mentioned, the trademark is "UNIX".

I don't really have a fixed position on _the_ way to spell it: when I'm
wiriting about a specific version (e.g. V6) I use the capitalization as of
that version; for general text I'd probably use 'Unix', as that seems to be
general now. But I could easily be convinced otherwise.

	Noel

             reply	other threads:[~2021-07-10 20:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-10 20:02 Noel Chiappa [this message]
2021-07-10 20:09 ` Nelson H. F. Beebe
2021-07-10 20:11   ` Jon Steinhart
2021-07-10 21:54     ` Rob Pike
2021-07-10 21:55       ` Rob Pike
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-07-10 19:18 Jon Steinhart
2021-07-10 19:27 ` Rich Morin

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