From: Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>
To: Jon Steinhart <jon@fourwinds.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] The Unix shell: a 50-year view - hopefully final review of letter
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2021 07:54:26 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKzdPgyOVJk+d-N6H8Gtyy4P4wzczpEP1VpwXORFERV=R=qafw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202107102011.16AKBaVh2824331@darkstar.fourwinds.com>
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Yes, a related issue came up when dmr rebelled when the lawyers made him
rewrite a phrase when reprinting a paper in the BSTJ. For some reason, he
didn't prefer the rewrite: "PDP-11 computer system UNIX system file system".
-rob
On Sun, Jul 11, 2021 at 6:12 AM Jon Steinhart <jon@fourwinds.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
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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
2021-07-10 21:54 ` Rob Pike [this message]
2021-07-10 21:55 ` Rob Pike
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2021-07-10 19:18 Jon Steinhart
2021-07-10 19:27 ` Rich Morin
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