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 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. >