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[72.197.247.231]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id j7sm8701153pgl.38.2019.11.09.13.05.40 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 09 Nov 2019 13:05:40 -0800 (PST) To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org References: <2ce9495a-b877-91be-ff5b-5516b8269562@gmail.com> From: Mary Ann Horton Message-ID: <972b4dbb-e62f-f369-153b-e1892506b72d@mhorton.net> Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2019 13:05:39 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US Subject: Re: [TUHS] UNIX or unix 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" I just finished Brian Kernighan's book (excellent!) and he addresses this in section 7.6. (Yes, he wrote the book in troff.) He prefers "Unix" and wrote it that way except for this section. He says "Bell Labs' legal guardians decided that the name Unix was a valuable trademark that had to be protected..." Legal mostly required it to be used as an adjective "The UNIX TM operating system", and how the ms macros produced a small caps "UNIX" (and a footnote on the first reference). He's clear that the 1127 folks hated the requirements from legal. It is true that the file which contains the kernel was /unix, or /vmunix for Berkeley Unix, but that's the name of the file, not the proper name of the operating system for English prose.  By convention, virtually all Unix files were in lower case.     Mary Ann On 11/9/19 12:36 PM, Derrik Walker v2.0 wrote: > On 11/9/19 12:20 PM, Nemo Nusquam wrote: >> I was reading the comments on Hackaday on UNIX at 50 >> (https://hackaday.com/2019/11/05/will-the-real-unix-please-stand-up/). >> As expected, a lot of manure but some interesting comments from >> seemingly knowledgeable people. >> >> One comment >> (https://hackaday.com/2019/11/05/will-the-real-unix-please-stand-up/#comment-6192977), >> from a DDS, stated that (s)he worked at The Bell and they wrote it >> "unix" (lower-case) to distinguish it from MULTICS.  Anyone care to >> comment on this? >> >> N. > > It was always my understanding, based totally on hearsay from > engineers from both Sun and SGI back in my early days with it, UNIX is > the OS, while unix, or vmunix is the kernel. Unix was deprecated by > the time it became a real commercial product. > > So, right or wrong, I've always used UNIX for the OS, and unix, or > vmunix as appropriate, to refer to the kernel. > > - Derrik >