On Wed, 15 Nov 2017 at 06:12:03 +0100 Alessandro Selli <alessandrose...@linux.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Nov at 2017 15:35:08 -0800 > Rick Moen <r...@linuxmafia.com> wrote: > >> [1] The grammarian in me keeps insisting it shouldn't have been 'UNIX', >> not being an acronym. > > AFAIR Dennis Ritchie lamented the spread of the capitalized form UNIX, he > insisted it was never meant to be that way and that at AT&T/Bell Labs they > always wrote Unix. But, alas! all capital lettering was ubiquitous back > then, at least in several systems/terminals, and the custom stuck. IIRC > only this year the US Navy gave up the requirement that its communications > must always be trasmitted using all capitals. Now that I think of it, the spread of the Unix license plate must have contributed to the spread of the bad habit: http://www.unix.org/license-plate.html At unix.com they seem to prefer the all capital form of the name. :-/ Alessandro _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
