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

[Rob Pike]

Yes, a related issue came up when dmr rebelled when the lawyers made him
rewrite a phrase when reprinting a paper in the BSTJ. For some reason, he
didn't prefer the rewrite: "PDP-11 computer system UNIX system file system".

-rob


On Sun, Jul 11, 2021 at 6:12 AM Jon Steinhart <jon at fourwinds.com> wrote:

> Nelson H. F. Beebe writes:
> > Jon Steinhart writes
> >
> > > I use UNIX instead of Unix as that's what I believe is the correct
> form.
> >
> > Brian Kernighan addresses this issue in section 7.3 of his
> > recent memoir: it has "UNIX A History and a Memoir" on the
> > cover, but prefers "Unix" in the rest of that book, except
> > in the noted section.  He also refers back to the 1984
> > book with Rob Pike, "The UNIX Programming Environment",
> > in which the typography uses small caps for "UNIX".
>
> Yeah, small caps was what I always considered correct.
>
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