12 May
2022
12 May
'22
12:08 a.m.
The Book (https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/multics-system - I've always
assumed this is the canonical non-mimeographed reference) uses "Multics".
/Frew
On 2022-05-11 10:13, Dan Cross wrote:
This is tangentially related to Unix, and came up randomly at work
yesterday.
In Kernighan's Unix memoir, on page 9, he touches briefly on the
typography of "Unix":
"(Multics was originally spelled MULTICS, but the lower-case version
is less visually jarring; as with UNIX versus Unix and some other
all-caps words, I’ll use the nicer-looking form even though it’s not
historically accurate.)"
Here, he is talking about interning at MIT in 1966. bwk would
certainly know better than me, but I can find no historical reference
to this "MULTICS" spelling; is anyone familiar with that? The earliest
reference I can find (the 1965 paper from the FJCC:
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1463891.1463912) uses the more
"Multics" styling, but it may have been typeset later.
Alternatively, could someone send me Brian's email address?
- Dan C.