[TUHS] The Case of UNIX vs. The UNIX System

[Rob Pike]

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 at 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
>
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