10 Oct
2024
10 Oct
'24
6:07 p.m.
On Thursday, October 10th, 2024 at 8:41 AM, Douglas McIlroy
<douglas.mcilroy(a)dartmouth.edu> wrote:
Unix folk were barely involved in the branding or
advertising of the system. I recall that we got to proofread and edit the first Unix ad,
but essentially nothing later. Nor did we contribute to the cover designs of the 7th
edition trade verson or the 8th-10th in-house versions of the manual.
Doug
Thanks Doug (and Arnold Robbins in another stream)! Doug I tossed up the cover scans you
sent me some time ago here:
https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=publications:manuals:research
The other pages under publications:manuals that I've filled out also have photographs
of covers from my bookshelf. I figured what you described was the case, I don't know
anything about the "face" of our stuff at work until someone gives me a logo to
put on a site or application somewhere, I can't imagine most technical folks give a
hoot what mask their products wear when they step out in the world.
- Matt G.