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

[Rob Pike]

(There were some ™'s in there too.)


On Sun, Jul 11, 2021 at 7:54 AM Rob Pike <robpike at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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