11 Jul
2021
11 Jul
'21
3:54 a.m.
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(a)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.