[TUHS] The Unix shell: a 50-year view - hopefully final review of letter

Rich Morin rdm at cfcl.com
Sun Jul 11 05:27:21 AEST 2021


> Unix (/ˈjuːnɪks/; trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, whose development started in the 1970s at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others. ... -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix

Perhaps UNIX is to Unix as STREAMS is to streams? (:-).

-r

> On Jul 10, 2021, at 12:18, Jon Steinhart <jon at fourwinds.com> wrote:
> 
> BTW, except where I'm quoting the paper I use UNIX instead of Unix
> as that's what I believe is the correct form.  Please let me know
> if that's not correct.



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