[TUHS] Fwd: Curious Question from the Ether about use of Upper and Lower case at DEC

[Arthur Krewat]

While BAH was more involved in PDP-10 stuff, I wonder what her take is 
on this.

On 10/11/2019 8:04 PM, Clem cole wrote:
> FYI.  I sent this to one of the lead DOC people from the old days to 
> see if she knew.  Here is her answer.
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> *From:* "Janet Egan"
>> *Date:* October 11, 2019 at 7:53:16 PM EDT
>> *To:* "'Clem Cole'"
>> *Subject:* *RE: Curious Question from the Ether about use of Upper 
>> and Lower case at DEC*
>>
>> Hi Clem,
>>
>> Hmm, I don’t remember whether the style guide addressed that. In the 
>> docs for  RSX-11M and such I always wrote it “PDP-11”, that is upper 
>> case with the dash.  I do remember the logo on the machine as always 
>> lower case with no dash. The PDP-8 had the same style logo. And 
>> you’re right about seeing the lower case on the cover of the 
>> handbooks.  I have never seen the lower case with the dash or the 
>> upper case without it. I don’t think I still have my copy of the 
>> style guide. Maybe I’ll take a look around my archives for it.
>>
>> What a fun question to be thinking about .
>>
>> Janet
>>
>> *From:*Clem Cole
>> *Sent:* Friday, October 11, 2019 9:47 AM
>> *To:* Janet Egan
>> *Subject:* Curious Question from the Ether about use of Upper and 
>> Lower case at DEC
>>
>> Janet,
>>
>>  I'm part of The Unix Historical Society (TUHS) mailing list and a 
>> topic came up that I thought you might be able to shed some 
>> light on.  The observation was that 'DEC seemed to have a 
>> schizophrenic attitude to wrt to use of upper and lower case WRT to 
>> the PDP-11 brand,' i.e. sometimes using "PDP-11" and sometimes 
>> "pdp11"  (but I note rarely if ever PDP11 or pdp-11) . For instance, 
>> the logo on the system itself was all lower: PDP-11/40 
>> <https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Pdp-11-40.jpg/250px-Pdp-11-40.jpg> but 
>> DEC documentation mostly used uppercase in the text; but when used on 
>> the places like the cover could be either /e.g. /the 
>> "pdp11 peripherals handbook" to transcribe the cover exactly but it 
>> uses upper case "PDP-11" several times on pg 1-1 and the same on the 
>> binding.  But I could not find examples of pdp-11 or PDP11, /i.e./ if 
>> all lower it was with the dash or all upper without.
>>
>> Do you remember if there were rules or guidelines and if so what they 
>> might have been?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Clem
>>

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