From: Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>
To: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] The Unix shell: a 50-year view - hopefully final review of letter
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2021 12:27:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D562A05-3081-4C09-9D36-743FC42530F0@cfcl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202107101918.16AJI4N02822420@darkstar.fourwinds.com>
> Unix (/ˈjuːnɪks/; trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, whose development started in the 1970s at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others. ... -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix
Perhaps UNIX is to Unix as STREAMS is to streams? (:-).
-r
> On Jul 10, 2021, at 12:18, Jon Steinhart <jon@fourwinds.com> wrote:
>
> BTW, except where I'm quoting the paper I use UNIX instead of Unix
> as that's what I believe is the correct form. Please let me know
> if that's not correct.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-10 19:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-10 19:18 Jon Steinhart
2021-07-10 19:27 ` Rich Morin [this message]
2021-07-10 20:02 Noel Chiappa
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
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