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From: Jon Steinhart <jon@fourwinds.com>
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Subject: Re: [TUHS] The Unix shell: a 50-year view - hopefully final review
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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.