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<blockquote>Doug Mcllroy told me that he thought spelling UNIX with capital letters, rather than Unix, had been a grave error. I have adopted his | ==Capitalization== | ||
suggestion and used Unix in most places. - P. Salus | |||
<blockquote>Doug Mcllroy told me that he thought spelling UNIX with capital letters, rather than Unix, had been a grave error. I have adopted his suggestion and used Unix in most places. - P. Salus | |||
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[https://ia801004.us.archive.org/6/items/aquartercenturyofunixpeterh.salus_201910/A%20Quarter%20Century%20of%20UNIX%20-%20Peter%20H.%20Salus.pdf A Quarter Century of Unix - Peter H. Salus.] | [https://ia801004.us.archive.org/6/items/aquartercenturyofunixpeterh.salus_201910/A%20Quarter%20Century%20of%20UNIX%20-%20Peter%20H.%20Salus.pdf A Quarter Century of Unix - Peter H. Salus.] | ||
[[User:ForOldHack|ForOldHack]] ([[User talk:ForOldHack|talk]]) 07:51, 16 December 2022 (CET) | |||
: That may be, but it's a historical fact that until V7 it was always spelled with caps; and the Bell trademark was on the all-caps version. [[User:Jnc|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc|talk]]) 13:34, 16 December 2022 (CET) | |||
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Doug Mcllroy told me that he thought spelling UNIX with capital letters, rather than Unix, had been a grave error. I have adopted his suggestion and used Unix in most places. - P. Salus
A Quarter Century of Unix - Peter H. Salus.
ForOldHack (talk) 07:51, 16 December 2022 (CET)
