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X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------u2kZw1Sh82piihQiY2USlpX9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The Book (https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/multics-system - I've always assumed this is the canonical non-mimeographed reference) uses "Multics". /Frew On 2022-05-11 10:13, Dan Cross wrote: > > This is tangentially related to Unix, and came up randomly at work > yesterday. > > In Kernighan's Unix memoir, on page 9, he touches briefly on the > typography of "Unix": > > "(Multics was originally spelled MULTICS, but the lower-case version > is less visually jarring; as with UNIX versus Unix and some other > all-caps words, I’ll use the nicer-looking  form even though it’s not > historically accurate.)" > > Here, he is talking about interning at MIT in 1966. bwk would > certainly know better than me, but I can find no historical reference > to this "MULTICS" spelling; is anyone familiar with that? The earliest > reference I can find (the 1965 paper from the FJCC: > https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1463891.1463912) uses the more > "Multics" styling, but it may have been typeset later. > > Alternatively, could someone send me Brian's email address? > >         - Dan C. > --------------u2kZw1Sh82piihQiY2USlpX9 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

The Book (https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/multics-system - I've always assumed this is the canonical non-mimeographed reference) uses "Multics".

/Frew

On 2022-05-11 10:13, Dan Cross wrote:

This is tangentially related to Unix, and came up randomly at work yesterday.

In Kernighan's Unix memoir, on page 9, he touches briefly on the typography of "Unix":

"(Multics was originally spelled MULTICS, but the lower-case version is less visually jarring; as with UNIX versus Unix and some other all-caps words, I’ll use the nicer-looking  form even though it’s not historically accurate.)"

Here, he is talking about interning at MIT in 1966. bwk would certainly know better than me, but I can find no historical reference to this "MULTICS" spelling; is anyone familiar with that? The earliest reference I can find (the 1965 paper from the FJCC: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1463891.1463912) uses the more "Multics" styling, but it may have been typeset later.

Alternatively, could someone send me Brian's email address?

        - Dan C.

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