11 Oct
2019
11 Oct
'19
7:11 p.m.
On 2019-10-11 07:55, Tony Travis wrote:
On 11/10/2019 03:46, Dave Horsfall wrote:
Well, that's also in-line with their using all lower-case on their logo.
On Thu, 10 Oct 2019, Noel Chiappa wrote:
Hi, Dave.
On the _machine_ itself, DEC wrote "pdp11"... DEC documentation mostly used uppercase in the
text; e.g. the "pdp11
peripherals handbook" (to transcribe the cover exactly) uses "PDP-11"
several times on pg 1-1.
And being an acronym it is of course upper-case... An acronym doesn't have to be upper-case!
Many Unix commands are lower case acronyms:
cd = (c)ange (d)irectory
pwd (p)rint (w)orking (directory)
ls = (l)ist file(s)
I always thought of it as (l)i(s)t files.
I guess that my introduction to Seventh Edition Unix
running on a
"pdp11/34" made me think it was obviously designed to run Unix ;-)
Bye,
Tony.
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