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* [TUHS] UNIX or unix
@ 2019-11-09 17:20 Nemo Nusquam
  2019-11-09 19:43 ` Paco López
  2019-11-09 20:36 ` Derrik Walker v2.0
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From: Nemo Nusquam @ 2019-11-09 17:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: The Eunuchs Historical Society

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.

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* Re: [TUHS] UNIX or unix
@ 2019-11-09 19:39 Noel Chiappa
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Noel Chiappa @ 2019-11-09 19:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: tuhs; +Cc: jnc

    > From: Nemo Nusquam

    > One comment .. 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?

All the original Multics hardcopy documentation I have (both from GE and MIT,
as well as later material from Honeywell) spells it 'Multics'. Conversely, an
original V6 UPM spells it 'UNIX'; I think it switched to 'Unix' around the
time of V7. (I don't know about _really_ early, like on the PDP-7.)

The bit about case to differentiate _might_ be right.

	Noel

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2019-11-09 21:05   ` Mary Ann Horton
2019-11-09 21:23     ` Clem Cole
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