Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 19:19:10 -0700 From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@freebsd.org> To: grog@freebsd.org Cc: nik@freebsd.org, chern@meow.osd.bsdi.com, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UNIX vs Unix Message-ID: <20010716191910Z.jkh@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20010717111309.E70499@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0107161348180.71896-200000@meow.osd.bsdi.com> <20010716225849.A29634@clan.nothing-going-on.org> <20010717111309.E70499@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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Actually, I seem to remember a posting from Rob Pike that said "it's spelled Unix, get over it" in response to a previous run of contraversy. - Jordan From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: UNIX vs Unix Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 11:13:09 +0930 > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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