15 Feb
2025
15 Feb
'25
1:11 p.m.
Although I edited the v7 through v10 manuals, I have no recollection of
why "system" crept into the title between v7 and v8. Resistance to
trademark edicts did grow. In v10, the cover and the man pages proclaimed
"Unix". However, the fossilized spelling, "UNIX", still appeared in
the
introduction to Volume 1 and scattered throughout Volume 2.
Doug
15 Feb
15 Feb
8:49 p.m.
New subject: The Case of UNIX vs. The UNIX System
And despite what I wrote before, I was confusing the Plan 9 printed manuals
with the Unix v10 ones, perhaps because they both used the same publisher.
I was not principal in the v10 books.
Someone should start a mailing list so we can record the history for those
who can't remember what happened or weren't there.
-rob
On Sun, Feb 16, 2025 at 12:12 AM Douglas McIlroy <
douglas.mcilroy(a)dartmouth.edu> wrote:
Although I edited the v7 through v10 manuals, I have
no recollection of
why "system" crept into the title between v7 and v8. Resistance to
trademark edicts did grow. In v10, the cover and the man pages proclaimed
"Unix". However, the fossilized spelling, "UNIX", still appeared in
the
introduction to Volume 1 and scattered throughout Volume 2.
Doug
9:27 p.m.
New subject: The Case of UNIX vs. The UNIX System
On 16 February 2025 6:49:15 am AEST, Rob Pike <robpike(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Someone should start a mailing list so we can record
the history for those
who can't remember what happened or weren't there.
-rob
I might get around to doing that one day :-)
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16 Feb
16 Feb
2:23 a.m.
New subject: The Case of UNIX vs. The UNIX System
Hello!
Then count me in as an observer. This is turning into an interesting discussion.
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On Sat, Feb 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM Warren Toomey via TUHS <tuhs(a)tuhs.org> wrote:
On 16 February 2025 6:49:15 am AEST, Rob Pike <robpike(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Someone should start a mailing list so we can
record the history for those
who can't remember what happened or weren't there.
-rob
I might get around to doing that one day :-)
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