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: Agreed, that one in particular stands out. Otherwise Multics is rather consistently capitalized. With regards to your passion: go for it, run with the wind! [[User:Larsbrinkhoff|Larsbrinkhoff]] ([[User talk:Larsbrinkhoff|talk]]) 07:04, 12 June 2023 (CEST) | : Agreed, that one in particular stands out. Otherwise Multics is rather consistently capitalized. With regards to your passion: go for it, run with the wind! [[User:Larsbrinkhoff|Larsbrinkhoff]] ([[User talk:Larsbrinkhoff|talk]]) 07:04, 12 June 2023 (CEST) | ||
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| + | : Another agreement.. as for MULTICS/Multics, with no personal historical knowledge about the OS, I do remember that in that time period it was common to use all uppercase for a lot of names in computing, in real life as well as in fiction. Didn't matter if the name was an acronym or not. The ones I'm personally familiar with are all the "[[NORD-1|NORD]]" computers - that's "NORTH" in Norwegian and wasn't an acronym. [[User:Tor|Tor]] ([[User talk:Tor|talk]]) 07:38, 12 June 2023 (CEST) | ||
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Conditions
I have this idea was the first OS to make extensive use of conditions inside the OS (something that even today I suspect not many do). This needs to be verified, and can then be added. Jnc (talk) 15:21, 6 October 2017 (CEST)
Multics BCPL
Interesting; the Multics BCPL note spells Multics as "MULTICS". ISTR that either Jerry (possibly) or Corby (likely) insisted that it was not a acronym, and thus was not all upper-case. And most original documentation does spell it that way.
(Sorry I get so wound up about case, etc; I've always been that way a bit, and then the AP decided that 'Internet' should be spelled 'internet', ignoring the fact that 'internet' was an existing (older) word with a slightly different meaning. I've never recovered.) Jnc (talk) 20:22, 11 June 2023 (CEST)
- Agreed, that one in particular stands out. Otherwise Multics is rather consistently capitalized. With regards to your passion: go for it, run with the wind! Larsbrinkhoff (talk) 07:04, 12 June 2023 (CEST)
- Another agreement.. as for MULTICS/Multics, with no personal historical knowledge about the OS, I do remember that in that time period it was common to use all uppercase for a lot of names in computing, in real life as well as in fiction. Didn't matter if the name was an acronym or not. The ones I'm personally familiar with are all the "NORD" computers - that's "NORTH" in Norwegian and wasn't an acronym. Tor (talk) 07:38, 12 June 2023 (CEST)
