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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
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[[User:ForOldHack|ForOldHack]] ([[User talk:ForOldHack|talk]]) 07:51, 16 December 2022 (CET)
 
[[User:ForOldHack|ForOldHack]] ([[User talk:ForOldHack|talk]]) 07:51, 16 December 2022 (CET)
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: 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)

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. Jnc (talk) 13:34, 16 December 2022 (CET)