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From: Jon Steinhart <jon@fourwinds.com>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] The Unix shell: a 50-year view - hopefully final review of letter
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2021 13:11:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202107102011.16AKBaVh2824331@darkstar.fourwinds.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CMM.0.95.0.1625947754.beebe@gamma.math.utah.edu>

Nelson H. F. Beebe writes:
> Jon Steinhart writes
>
> > I use UNIX instead of Unix as that's what I believe is the correct form.
>
> Brian Kernighan addresses this issue in section 7.3 of his
> recent memoir: it has "UNIX A History and a Memoir" on the
> cover, but prefers "Unix" in the rest of that book, except
> in the noted section.  He also refers back to the 1984
> book with Rob Pike, "The UNIX Programming Environment",
> in which the typography uses small caps for "UNIX".

Yeah, small caps was what I always considered correct.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-10 20:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-10 20:02 Noel Chiappa
2021-07-10 20:09 ` Nelson H. F. Beebe
2021-07-10 20:11   ` Jon Steinhart [this message]
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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