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Editing will commence. [[User:ForOldHack|ForOldHack]] ([[User talk:ForOldHack|talk]]) 11:05, 16 April 2019 (CEST) | Editing will commence. [[User:ForOldHack|ForOldHack]] ([[User talk:ForOldHack|talk]]) 11:05, 16 April 2019 (CEST) | ||
| + | :While in general I agree about Wikipedia's ideas about readability, my personal opinion is that the correct way to capitalize retro names is the way their various vendors did back then. E.g. the NORD-1 computer was named that way, so I grumbled a lot when Wikipedia changed that to Nord-1. SYSVr3 was written SYSV3r when new, wasn't it? One reason I prefer other wikis than Wikipedia these days is that we're not so strict about their rules.. [[User:Tor|Tor]] ([[User talk:Tor|talk]]) 13:43, 16 April 2019 (CEST) | ||
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Capitalization problems
[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Capital_letters Wikipedia Manual of Style: Capitalization ]]
I recognize on this page the need to make it a bit less shouty.
For this page/wiki I would like to only capitolize acronyms: i.e.
Unix is not an acronym but a trademark. Sys V is a version, and by convention is represented by a roman numeral, and AT&T must remain AT&T.
Editing will commence. ForOldHack (talk) 11:05, 16 April 2019 (CEST)
- While in general I agree about Wikipedia's ideas about readability, my personal opinion is that the correct way to capitalize retro names is the way their various vendors did back then. E.g. the NORD-1 computer was named that way, so I grumbled a lot when Wikipedia changed that to Nord-1. SYSVr3 was written SYSV3r when new, wasn't it? One reason I prefer other wikis than Wikipedia these days is that we're not so strict about their rules.. Tor (talk) 13:43, 16 April 2019 (CEST)
