Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 11:13:09 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> Cc: Chern Lee <chern@meow.osd.bsdi.com>, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UNIX vs Unix Message-ID: <20010717111309.E70499@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20010716225849.A29634@clan.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@freebsd.org on Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 10:58:49PM %2B0100 References: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0107161348180.71896-200000@meow.osd.bsdi.com> <20010716225849.A29634@clan.nothing-going-on.org>
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On Monday, 16 July 2001 at 22:58:49 +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 01:52:49PM -0700, Chern Lee wrote: >> According to O'Reilly's word list: >> Unix (UNIX in many books, esp. older ones) >> >> UNIX appears about 10 to 1 to Unix in the handbook. At first, I resorted >> to changing all instances of Unix to UNIX to make our document more >> standard, but then realized Unix looks a lot more aesthetically pleasing. >> >> According to O'Reilly, are we a new document or an old book? >> >> Attached is a patch changing all relevant instances of Unix -> UNIX. >> >> I'd like it the other way around. > > Ditto. It's not an acronym, it's a pun -- you don't write "WINDOWS". > It should be "Unix". The word is UNIX. Misspelling it Unix doesn't make it right. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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